The Debutante Ball

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

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Author: KellyW

  • Posted on Wednesday, August 28, 2013Tuesday, August 27, 2013
  • by KellyW

Goodbye, Hello!

All I know about real debutantes I learned from reading Susan McBride’s yummy YA series The Debs, and from one…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2013Tuesday, August 13, 2013
  • by KellyW

The Journey So Far…

Now that we’ve chosen our lovely new class of debs and are getting close to handing them the reins/reigns, I…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, August 7, 2013Tuesday, August 6, 2013
  • by KellyW

What Deb Kelly Doesn’t Know Could Fill a Book

This week’s topic is all about what you (and I) don’t know. And no wonder it’s a topic of conversation…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2013Tuesday, July 30, 2013
  • by KellyW

Deb Kelly Loves The End

So, Deb Kerry talked about not enjoying the process of writing endings in this week’s post, and Dana’s mentioned that…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 24, 2013
  • by KellyW

When reading is murder–getting through hard times at the keyboard

I hope you all read Deb Dana’s post (scroll down one). Among other things I was nodding my head about…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013Tuesday, July 16, 2013
  • by KellyW

Deb Kelly gets out her cocktail shaker to celebrate CLAWS!

Have you heard the news? It’s Deb Susan’s launch week! Claws of the Cat hit the stands yesterday, and Shinobi…

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  • Posted on Saturday, July 13, 2013Thursday, July 11, 2013
  • by KellyW

The Deb Ball Welcomes Meg Waite Clayton!

We are honored to have New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton visiting us today, sharing with us a…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013Tuesday, July 9, 2013
  • by KellyW

Deb Kelly Takes the Deb Interview

I have been waiting all year for my turn to take the Deb Interview! It’s finally here. The book is…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2013Tuesday, July 2, 2013
  • by KellyW

Deb Kelly dreamed of home… and wrote this book as a result.

I’ve often joked that the worst part of being a writer is letting people read your work. For a long…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2013Tuesday, June 18, 2013
  • by KellyW

Deb Kelly’s Characters are Fatherless Children

Don’t read too much into this but there are no dads in my books so far. They aren’t bad or…

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