When I look back at my elementary school years, some of my fondest memories were the days when the…
Category: Kathleen West
Somehow I went from “let’s see if I can write a book” to a full-time author whose debut is publishing…
This upcoming holiday season many of us will gather around tables with food lovingly prepared and spend precious time with…
Yay for Emma Sloley, author of Disaster’s Children, a gripping dystopian novel recently published by Little a! An accomplished writer…
This week, we’re sharing what we’d wished we’d known when we started writing. It’s a hard question. While I tell…
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…
So many aspects of being a writer are anxiety-producing. I’ve basically been bathing in cortisol since I finished a first…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
We’re tackling the problem of distractions this week, and like many of us, I’m an expert at finding reasons to…