Happy New Year to the lovely readers of this blog! I hope you had a wonderful break and are not…
Author: Stephanie Jimenez
This year, we interviewed dozens of authors for The Debutante Ball about what it’s like to become a writer. We…
Please welcome Reyna Grande to the Ball this week! Reyna is an award-winning author whose stunning memoir The Distance Between Us…
This week, Barrelhouse featured my short story “Urban Legend” in their seasonal issue. I’ve pasted the first paragraph below: It…
This week, we’re speaking with Stephanie Elliot, the author of young adult novel SAD PERFECT (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). SAD…
Let’s talk about something taboo: spending money. I recently subscribed to Scarlett Thomas’ Patreon newsletter. For $10 a month, she…
Before I decided to write my first novel, I never thought average people from average places doing average things could…
Dear reader, November is Native American Heritage Month and instead of writing a Thanksgiving post, I’m compiling a very brief…
Dear readers, Today we are talking about writing a query letter, which is the first step to getting a literary…
This is going to be a fairly short post because today I’m a little distracted. There are a million things…