This week at the Ball, we welcome a Deb alum — the wonderful Mia King, who is a graduate of the first class! Mia King is the national bestselling author of seven novels, including three written under the name Darien Gee. Her books have been translated into 14 languages and are selections of the Doubleday, Literary Guild, Rhapsody and Book of the Month Club book clubs. Mia lives with her family…
Founding Deb Mia (Good Things, Sweet Life, and Table Manners) is still dancing! Her new novel, Friendship Bread, pubs on April 5, 2011!
Deb Kristina is thrilled to announce her second novel, THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAGINED, will be released in August 2010. It’s about three friends and a mother who learn to cope with life as it is (not as they planned) in Haven, Michigan. Deb Meredith will be at the Decatur Book Festival Labor Day weekend. If you’re in Atlanta, you can catch her on a mystery panel Sunday September 6 at…
Deb Meredith will be speaking at the Sheepshead Bay branch of the Brooklyn Library Wednesday, May 27 at 2 PM. And she’ll be at the Mystery Writers of America Booth at BookExpo of America on Saturday, May 30. Deb Kristina will have a guest post go “live” tomorrow at A Book Blogger’s Diary, here, in conjunction with a contest to win a signed copy! Also, historical romance author Sherry Thomas…
Okay. I have rewritten the opening of this post a million times, unsure of where to begin. I’m sure it won’t come as any surprise when I say that life following the debut of my novel, GOOD THINGS (Berkley Books, Feb 2007), was anticlimactic. Every author tells you this: they wake up on the morning of only to discover that they still have the same bad hair and dirty laundry…
So, if you’re like me, you kind of like to make plans about this whole writing thing and generally espouse on how great being a published author is. For example: “I’m going to write my next book in three months’ flat!” “I’m going to write my next book right after that!” “My writing career is off to a great start!” “I love being able to write whenever I can!” “I…
I’m a bit of a loner. I think, as a writer, most of us are by default – we don’t necessarily think we fit in, we’d rather be writing, we’d rather be reading, we have a healthy dose of insecurity and anxiety. In general I tend not to do the group thing. For me, it’s just a lot of work; I tend to get easily frustrated. I do much better…
Are you hungry yet? Deb Mia and a GOOD THINGS recipe is featured in The Write Ingredients: Recipes From Your Favorite Authors. Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster, the book features over 90 of your favorite authors to create a book of tasty treats. Pick up your copy today and bon appétit! Friends in the News! Pat Wood, author of Lottery has been a busy media mogul. Check out…
It hit me today. I’m no longer a Deb. I mean, I am and always will be a Debutante in spirit, but in the strictest sense of the word, I no longer qualify. My “debut” has passed – my “debut” novel, GOOD THINGS, came out this past February. I didn’t realize how much I would miss it, now that it no longer applies. *sniff* But you know how it goes…
Hip Hip Hurra! GOOD THINGS just sold foreign rights to Germany! Guest Blogger! Debut author Amanda Ashby (YOU HAD ME AT HALO – NAL August 2007) will be guest blogging this Thursday. Stop by and say “kia ora” (hi in Maori) – Amanda hails from New Zealand, Deb Mia’s favorite islands next to her own! More PARTY People! Bookfinds.com called Deb Anna’s protagonist in PARTY GIRL “quite possibly the most…
