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July 3, 2012
My Yankee Doodle brother
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Photo credit: cliff1066™)
My little brother’s birthday is today. (He’s alsotechnicallynot little anymore because he has multiple feet on me but, whatever.) His name is Sam.
Meaning someday when my future children sing “Yankee Doodle Boy” it will be factually accurate with only one small change.
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
A Yankee Doodle, do or die;
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam,
Born on the FourthThird of July.
See? Accurate.
Gotta love that.
So a very happy birthday to my so...
July 1, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… July 1, 2012
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 June 23, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Experience the excitement of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR race—from the new eBay Racing page! Join eBay Motors and fellow racing fans on the new eBay Racing page from June 22 to June 24, [...]
Is sel...
June 29, 2012
My new comedy, Polar Twilight, coming soon from Playscripts, Inc
If you were to visit my Playscripts author page right now, you’d noticed something downright interesting underneath the listing for The Love of Three Oranges. Namely, that they seem to be under the impression I’ve another play by the name of Polar Twilight.
Well, um, surprise! 
I’m pleased to announce that Playscripts, Inc has secured the rights to my newest play, a 1 Act holiday-themed comedy called Polar Twilight. While I’m sure Playscripts will debut their own marketing copy for when we get...
June 26, 2012
The Office of Letters and Light discontinues NaNoWriMo’s sister event, Script Frenzy
The Script Frenzy logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While I’ll have my own thoughts andanalysison this available in a later post, here’s the official word from the OLL today:
Dear Scriptwriters,
One thing that has made us proud over the years is how many people can call themselves scriptwriters because of Script Frenzy. Since 2007, the year Script Frenzy began, you and 85,000 other total participants have taken on the audacious challenge of writing a 100-page script—churning out nearly 1.4 million...
June 25, 2012
“Move a log. Go nuts.”
At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3 of The Love of Three Oranges, the stage directions read:
Strike the cauldron. It’s a different part of the forest. Change the lights if you want. Move a log. Go nuts.
This is, of course, the least professional stage direction ever written.
See, when I originally wrote Three Oranges, I was directing it and I knew, personally, every single person who would read the script. This was my attempt to make the tech crew, who were often unsure of what to make us creativ...
June 19, 2012
Beyond Amazon, eBay, and Etsy: My *almost* bestselling book
Clearly, blogging has gotten complete out of hand the last few weeks. I took the time to explain a bit of why over on The Whine Seller so I won’t repeat myself here. I will say, in addition to being busy, one of the reasons I’ve been so quiet is that there are a whole bunch of things going on right now that I can’t tell you about yet and I feel a little muzzled.
I hate to bevaguebut I promise I’ll have at least two big things to announce in the next few weeks so hang with me. If all goes to my...
June 17, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… June 17, 2012
Don’t read all the sites I blog for? Here’s what you missed in the last week outside of HillaryDePiano.com.
I just wanted to pop in to tell you guys…
That the “That’s on eBay” guy from this commercial: Won a Tony Award last night. I’ve actually seen him, Christian Borle, on Broadway in three different shows (and not the one he just won for) and I adore him. Even so, I still call him “That guy from the eBay commercial” all the time which [...]
Posts above were published in the last week on TheWhi...
June 10, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… June 10, 2012
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 June 9, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Stars come out on Twitter for awards fun MTV Movie Awards Sunday, June 3rd at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 9pm PT on MTV When you watch an awards show, you’re bound to [...]
How relevant is what you studied in scho...
June 4, 2012
National Novel Writing Month Success: 30 NaNoWriMo Tips from GalleyCat
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The fantastic publishing resource, GalleyCat, shared these 30 great tips for succeeding at NaNoWriMo in 2011. Whether you’re taking this challenge in November or as part of Camp NaNoWriMo, you’ll want to check out their great advice. I’vecompliedthe whole 30 post series into a single list so that you can find them all at a glance.
NaNoWriMo Tip #1: Read 30 Tips from Last Year
NaNoWriMo Tip #2: Use the Reference Desk
Type a Poem: NaNoWriMo Tip #3
NaNoWriMo Tip #4: Make a Mind Ma...
June 3, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… June 3, 2012
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 June 2, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: ePN TV: Christian Erhard Updates Us on ePN Mobile You may remember that last fall we talked a lot of ePN Mobile here on the blog. The program had been in the works for [...]
In which Amazon’s KDP accuses...
