On a couple of Saturday night’s a month, my husband and I pop one of our favorite movies into the…
Category: Architects of Memory
I am so excited to welcome Lisa de Nikolits to The Debutante Ball. Lisa’s latest novel is The Occult Persuasion…
Imagine, if you will, the author in her very early twenties. She’s two months out from her college graduation, completing…
I was in the waiting room of the dentist’s office the other day when another patient glanced over and asked…
I can’t remember who told me this first, but here’s the piece of writing advice that changed my life: Eyes…
When I look back at my elementary school years, some of my fondest memories were the days when the…
If you hadn’t guessed already, I’m a little bit of an extrovert. That’s not always a plus in the writing…
This upcoming holiday season many of us will gather around tables with food lovingly prepared and spend precious time with…
At the beginning, it’s perfectly okay to have no idea what you’re doing. It’s okay to spend hours at a…
When I began writing creatively—during the 1990s when I lived in Connecticut—hoping to get some short stories I had written…