I am so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel to The Debutante Ball. Kristin’s latest novel is The Winemaker’s Wife, an…
Category: Architects of Memory
In the grand scheme of things, writing the novel is supposed to be the hard part. Compared to writing my…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
You’re going to get some really great advice from my fellow Debs this week. Anyone who writes a book while…
I read once that air traffic controllers must be able to concentrate in a room where multiple conversations are going…
Do you want to know my number one writing fear? Writing this blog entry. Ha, ha. I’m mostly kidding. I…
Halloween is a spook-tacular occasion, what with ghosts, goblins and ghouls ringing the doorbell and phantoms roaming the streets. If…
I’ve had a lot of really, really good editors in my career. The student news editor at my high school…
Usually when I submit an essay or short story for publication to a literary magazine or anthology, and it’s accepted,…
When I think of the books and authors that have influenced me, I think back. Way back. Back further than…