I had some experience with a quote from The Love of Three Oranges going somewhat viral a few years ago but it was nothing like what happened with this line from my play, New Year’s Thieve. Shortly after the play was released last year, I was seeing it everywhere… and if you’re at all familiar with the internet, you know what happened...
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A few years ago, I was obsessed with the question: What would happen if Frosty’s magic hat had been put atop something other than a snowman? What if you put it on a coat rack? Would that come to life? I started writing a play about it with a very clear idea of who Frosty the Coat Rack was… but not what he was going to do in the story. I...
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The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here’s a quick overview of everything I have available right now that can work with student actors from middle school to...
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Who doesn’t like free books? There’s a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords’ big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take advantage before time runs out! Promo codes and exactly what’s for sale are...
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Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a ton of productions and then publishers came to me so I had my pick of offers and that there...
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I set up a mailing list a long time ago but I’ve never really pushed it here on the blog for a variety of reasons not worth going into. But exciting thing are happening at Burger King, as they say (OK, fine, no one but me says that but still) and it’s time to get real with a lot of things, building a mailing list being one of them. I would...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
It's New Year's Eve at the North Pole and Time is not on their side. 
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
Should you write by hand? Handwriting pros and cons
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
How to verify your word count & validate as a NaNoWriMo winner: step by step with visuals
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