I’m not a person who tends to dispense a lot of advice. I can tell myself that this…
Month: November 2018
Before I decided to write my first novel, I never thought average people from average places doing average things could…
There are a lot of things I wish I’d known when I was starting out as a writer, but the…
Missing my poetry-mom Lucille Clifton especially today. Here she is reading aloud a poem of hers that I love. Until I…
I spent a fair amount of my youth writing dense, novel-length, & character-driven fanfiction (henceforth referred to as fanfic) until…
Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Cinelle Barnes! If you haven’t already, enter the #DebBallGiveaway to win a copy…
I’m so thrilled to welcome Cinelle Barnes to the Debutante Ball this week! Cinelle Barnes is an essayist, memoirist, and…
I remember when I went to my writing group after my agent got the offer from…
Dear reader, November is Native American Heritage Month and instead of writing a Thanksgiving post, I’m compiling a very brief…
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, filled with delicious food and…