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My Perkins connection apparently pre-dates Bucknell

For anyone who’s attended Bucknell University, Perkins is a way of life. It’s one of the only restaurants that’s within walking distance of campus (especially the part of campus where most freshmen, who aren’t allowed cars, live) and it’s open very late (back in my day, sonny, it was open 24 hours). There are none in where I live in NJ so, whenever we’re on a road trip, my husband and I stop there for nostalgic reasons. So many of major college memories surround that place in one way or anoth...

Meanwhile, on my other blogs… October 6, 2013

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E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review October 5, 2013
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Mythbusting: Traditional Publishing vs. DIY Publishing “The only reason I’m here is to support and do whatever is possible for an editor to do to support a writer” is how Roy M. Carlisle started […]

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Is it the author’s fault when a reader has a character all wrong?

Jester reading a book (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A few years ago, my father was multiple books into a series before he realized the main character was black.

Shortly thereafter, I was reading a book and didn’t realize until halfway through it that the main character was female.

When I told my dad about my this to commiserate our confusion, we discovered only then, that what he’d been reading and what I’d been reading were both by the same author! It was wacky.

Has that ever happened to you? Have y...

Meanwhile, on my other blogs… September 29, 2013

Don’t read all the sites I blog for? Here’s what you missed in the last week outside of HillaryDePiano.com.

E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review September 28, 2013
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: ePN to Issue Reimbursements in Response to eBay’s Site Outage on August 23, 2013 Shortly before midnight, Pacific Time on Thursday, August 22 through 6:00 am, Friday, August 23, 2013 PST, several...

Over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges but how many performances?

Performing Arts Center at the Avery Coonley School. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just a quick addendum to this post. As I mentioned, there have now been over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges since I wrote it in 2002. But nearly productions did multiple performances of the show during their run so you may be wondering, how many performances have their been?

The answer isn’t as simple as you might think.

Since Playscripts acquired the show in 2011, there have been 163 performances. Those...

Meanwhile, on my other blogs… September 22, 2013

Don’t read all the sites I blog for? Here’s what you missed in the last week outside of HillaryDePiano.com.

eBay Shipping Policy creation throws up errors over phantom weight limits
I had every intention of writing up a really nice post about how I really liked eBay’s new business policies but then they had to go ahead and piss me off. If you haven’t used the business policies feature yet, it lets you opt into account wide policies for Payments, Returns and Shipping and just […]

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The comedy of a well placed marching band

English: UCLA marching band (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I wrote The Love of Three Oranges as part of my honors thesis on comedy my senior year of college. As you could imagine, I spent a lot of time doing research on comedy that year and my friends had all heard me go on about it at one point or another. I tried to resist being like, “That was funny because…” every time we all cracked up about something though I’m confident that I did it once or twice.

One evening, my roommates and I were doing s...

Meanwhile, on my other blogs… September 15, 2013

Don’t read all the sites I blog for? Here’s what you missed in the last week outside of HillaryDePiano.com.

E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review September 14, 2013
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Authors using Helix Review: Protasio Chipula Next up in our ongoing Helix Review series, we have Lulu author Protasio Chipula, author of Living with Cerebral Palsy: A Parents’ Guide to Managing Ce...

Duck fat

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Me: This book is depressing me.

Long Suffering Husband: What’s it about?

Me: It’s not what it’s about that’s the problem. It’s how well it’s written. I’ve heard people talk about getting intimidated by really good writing but it’s never actually happened to me before. Listen to this. *I read a section aloud* Listen to that! It’s like every word is lovingly carved from duck fat. I don’t write like that.

LSH: *laughs* Duck fat! See, you write like THAT.

Me: Was that something...

Meanwhile, on my other blogs… September 8, 2013

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Another weird link removal request for content they asked me to post: Is this some kind of spam/scam?
Remember this weird post? The one where a company that had asked me to share their infographic then turned around and told me to remove it because the traffic I was sending them was “unnatural”? Well check out this similar one I just got: Greetings! I’m [Name], and I work for [Site name]....