At the beginning, it’s perfectly okay to have no idea what you’re doing. It’s okay to spend hours at a…
Category: Karen Osborne
When I began writing creatively—during the 1990s when I lived in Connecticut—hoping to get some short stories I had written…
I am so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel to The Debutante Ball. Kristin’s latest novel is The Winemaker’s Wife, an…
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…
