From the 2014 Debs… Heather Webb had a great (and long) chat with her publicist for the first time! She’s…
Category: M. Molly Backes
You guys, I totally suck at goodbyes. I always cry. When I was little and my parents would leave us at…
Happy IN A FIX week! Awww, the final Deb Debut of the year… it’s beginning to feel like the end…
A few years ago, the Bad Habits reunited in Barbados for Sister Nadia’s wedding. The four of us — Sister…
Every editor in the world will tell you she’s looking for a manuscript with a strong narrative voice, but creating…
Do read their chapters and say, “I can’t wait to see more! Keep writing!” Don’t ask, “You’re still working on that? STILL?”…
When I wrote the first draft of The Princesses of Iowa, I knew one other writer. We would meet at…
When I was 19 years old, I took my first fiction writing class. Each week, the fifteen or so members…
Today I was hanging out with a group of creative writers at the Northeastern Illinois University Summer Creative Writing Institute,…
Happy Fourth of July! Or, as we say here at the Debutante Ball, HAPPY DEB JOANNE’S BOOK LAUNCH WEEK! Because it’s…
