This week, we’re sharing what we’d wished we’d known when we started writing. It’s a hard question. While I tell…
Month: November 2019
When I began writing creatively—during the 1990s when I lived in Connecticut—hoping to get some short stories I had written…
I am so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel to The Debutante Ball. Kristin’s latest novel is The Winemaker’s Wife, an…
We can discuss pitching and pitch letters till the sky turns green, but what would probably be more helpful is…
So, you want to query an agent, huh? It’s a gamble, yet an exciting one, dear writing, fishing with your…
In the grand scheme of things, writing the novel is supposed to be the hard part. Compared to writing my…
So many aspects of being a writer are anxiety-producing. I’ve basically been bathing in cortisol since I finished a first…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
When a Purple Rose Blooms (Nomadic Press, 2018), is a collection of essays and poetry about Black womanhood from Jenee…
Hey, let me tell you what I’m trying to do at this very moment: prep for my author marketing meeting,…