Martine Fournier Watson

[News Flash] May 19, 2019

Sunday, May 19, 2019
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Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Robyn Bennis! You can pick up her new book The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult people next Tuesday, May 21st. We are delighted to welcome #RobynBennis to @DebutanteBall this week! Her latest book, The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult People, is out Tuesday – @KA_Doore @MFournierWatson @LayneFargo @estefsays @devislaskar #WritingCommnunity https://t.co/jw8pfjgUcq pic.twitter.com/owsDJDx7cO — The Debutante Ball (@DebutanteBall) May 18, 2019 News from the Class…

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A Writer at Any Age

    Because my release day fell on my birthday, I’ve already written a little about writing and age. One of the best things about writing, I believe, is that you can do it at any age. It belongs to you at any age. As long as you want to put words on paper, you can, although how you approach it might change. How it affects you, and what it…

Friday, May 17, 2019
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[News Flash] May 12, 2019

Sunday, May 12, 2019
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Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Rheea Mukherjee! If you haven’t already, enter the #DebBallGiveaway to win a copy of The Body Myth. You can enter by sharing our post on Facebook and/or retweeting the following tweet (make sure you follow @DebutanteBall on Twitter too!): We are delighted to host @MukherjeeRheea this week on @DebutanteBall! RT & follow for a chance to win THE BODY MYTH @LayneFargo @KA_Doore @estefsays…

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Little Egg and Big Egg

Friday, May 10, 2019
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      There aren’t a lot of Easter eggs in The Dream Peddler, but I can think of a couple of things that most readers wouldn’t pick up on—they’re just there for me, or for anyone who happens to have the specific knowledge you would require to get my meaning. The first is a small thing having to do with naming. I had a really hard time getting through…

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[News Flash] May 5, 2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019
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Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Dea Poirier! If you haven’t already, enter the #DebBallGiveaway to win a copy of Next Girl to Die. You can enter by sharing our post on Facebook and/or retweeting the following tweet (make sure you follow @DebutanteBall on Twitter too!): We are so excited to host @deapoirierbooks this week on @DebutanteBall — RT and follow for a chance to win Next Girl To…

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Maybe You CAN Take the City out of the Girl

Friday, May 3, 2019
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  I’ve lived in a number of different places across Canada and the United States, and I think to some extent I’ve absorbed something from each of them that colors my writing in some way, but I honestly never gave much thought to that until I sat down to write this post. The first thing that seems to influence me is being Canadian. I have a penchant for describing long,…

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[News Flash] April 28, 2019

Sunday, April 28, 2019
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Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Danya Kukafka! If you haven’t already, enter the #DebBallGiveaway to win a copy of Girl in Snow. You can enter by sharing our post on Facebook and/or retweeting the following tweet (make sure you follow @DebutanteBall on Twitter too!): We are so excited to host @danyakukafka this week! RT this interview & follow @DebutanteBall for a chance to win her bestselling book GIRL IN…

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Dear Booksellers…

Friday, April 26, 2019
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    Like most writers, I’ve been an avid reader since the day I learned to read, and some of my fondest childhood memories are of the independent book stores I frequented with my family. Every time we visited the small town in Ontario where my grandparents lived, for instance, a visit to the bookstore was in order. My parents would let my brother and me browse for ages and…

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[News Flash] April 21, 2019

Sunday, April 21, 2019
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Thank you so much to yesterday’s guest, Kirstin Chen! If you haven’t already, enter the #DebBallGiveaway to win a copy of Bury What We Cannot Take. You can enter by sharing our post on Facebook and/or retweeting the following tweet (make sure you follow @DebutanteBall on Twitter too!): https://t.co/kJ861hEBpo we are so excited to host @kirstin_chen this week on @DebutanteBall! RT & follow for a chance to win a copy…

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Interview with Kirstin Chen and Giveaway for BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE

Saturday, April 20, 2019
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  I could not be more thrilled to welcome this week’s guest, Kirstin Chen, to the debutante ball! Kirstin Chen’s second novel, Bury What We Cannot Take, was named a best book of the year by Entropy, Popsugar, and Book Bub, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and InStyle. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners. She has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, Sewanee, Hedgebrook, the…

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