The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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  • Flora Collins
  • Sonya Singh
  • Cleyvis Natera
  • Sarah Grunder Ruiz
  • Carolyn Huynh

Category: distraction

  • Posted on Tuesday, January 5, 2021Tuesday, December 29, 2020
  • by Greta Kelly

Sometimes You Just Feel Stabby….

Many, many (many) years ago, I was a soccer player. Mind you, I wasn’t amazing—I knew I’d never play professionally…

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  • Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020
  • by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Demons and Daydreams: How Hieronymus Bosch Got Me Writing

I had a really hard time choosing a major in college. I went from Business Administration to Retailing, to Fashion,…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2020Sunday, November 1, 2020
  • by Greta Kelly

Time Management–Reflecting on the Before Times and Strategies for The New Era

When I sat down to brainstorm ideas for this article, it was hard not to think of all the B.C.’s…

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  • Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2020Wednesday, October 28, 2020
  • by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

The Jackhammer in the Basement: On writing (or not writing) through distractions

“It’s a black fly in your chardonnay. It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late.” Alanis Morissette was kind…

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  • Posted on Friday, March 6, 2020Wednesday, March 4, 2020
  • by Amy Klein

My Personality is My Writing…

Boy do I LOVE run-on sentences. I discovered this recently while working on the audio version book of The Trying…

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  • Posted on Friday, January 10, 2020Monday, January 6, 2020
  • by Amy Klein

The Most Challenging Part of Being a Writer (Apologies to Elsa)

Would you think me a bad parent if I told you my four year old has seen Frozen 2 three…

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  • Posted on Saturday, November 9, 2019Monday, November 4, 2019
  • by Amy Klein

How to Deal with Distractio– Wait is that a Text?

Hey, let me tell you what I’m trying to do at this very moment: prep for my author marketing meeting,…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, November 6, 2019Wednesday, November 6, 2019
  • by Karen Osborne

Go deep to beat distraction

You’re going to get some really great advice from my fellow Debs this week. Anyone who writes a book while…

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  • Posted on Monday, November 4, 2019Saturday, November 2, 2019
  • by Lisa Braxton

5 tips for successfully tackling distraction

I read once that air traffic controllers must be able to concentrate in a room where multiple conversations are going…

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Since 2007, the Debutante Ball has been celebrating first-time authors and their books. Learn more.

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