The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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  • Jennifer Fawcett
  • Flora Collins
  • Sonya Singh
  • Cleyvis Natera
  • Sarah Grunder Ruiz
  • Carolyn Huynh

Author: Heather Young

After a decade practicing law and another decade raising kids, Heather decided to finally write the novel she'd always talked about writing. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and the Tin House Writers Workshop, all of which helped her stop writing like a lawyer. She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and two teenaged children. When she's not writing she's biking, hiking, neglecting potted plants, and reading books by other people that she wishes she'd written.
  • Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2015Wednesday, October 21, 2015
  • by Heather Young

How I Learned to Crush My Darlings’ Souls

As a reader, I’ve always understood how important it is for the characters in a novel to suffer.  If the…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2015Sunday, December 6, 2015
  • by Heather Young

The Lawyer v. The Novelist: The Case for Thinking Like a Lawyer While Writing Your Novel

Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. That’s what they told me in law school, and what they meant was this:…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2015Sunday, October 18, 2015
  • by Heather Young

The Secret of Failure

This topic — the secrets we’ve kept during the publishing process — has been difficult for me to sort through,…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015Sunday, October 18, 2015
  • by Heather Young

The Query: Preparation is Ninety Percent, Perspiration is…Also Ninety Percent

Ah, the query.  The most important 500 words you’ll ever write. Oh, man, I wish that were an overstatement.  Here…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2015Sunday, October 18, 2015
  • by Heather Young

The Room My Father Built

When I was a little girl, my favorite room in our house was my father’s library.  We lived in a…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2015Sunday, October 18, 2015
  • by Heather Young

In Support of the Low-Residency MFA Program

There’s been a fair amount of discussion on the Ball this week about MFA programs, and we Debs represent a…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2015Sunday, October 18, 2015
  • by Heather Young

A Multitasker in All But This

Recently Stephen King wrote an essay for The New York Times in defense of prolific writers.  For every Barbara Cartwright, whose…

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