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Category: 2019

  • Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2019Monday, May 13, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Writing Time

Aloha. I started writing poetry when I was nine years old. I remember writing in bursts. I had a wonderful…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2019Tuesday, April 23, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Indie Love

Aloha. K.A. Doore wrote an essay yesterday about the reader’s buying power and how the support of an independent bookstore…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2019Sunday, April 14, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: on money and madness

Aloha: It’s tax season and this is a perfect time to remember that unless your last name is GRISHAM or…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2019Saturday, March 16, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: The Perfect Assassin is….Well, Perfect

I’m so honored to be with these debutante ball authors this year – terrific writers with stellar books coming out.…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2019Friday, March 8, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: IRL, 1966-2010

In my novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, I tried to capture the real world — the nonfiction world…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2019Monday, January 28, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Building a Platform

I want to go on record as saying that I have nothing to add to K.A. Doore’s perfect post yesterday.…

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  • Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2019Monday, January 21, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Interview with Rachel Howard + THE RISK OF US giveaway

We are thrilled to have Rachel Howard as our guest author this week at The Debutante Ball! Rachel Howard’s novel…

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  • Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2019Friday, January 4, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Interview with Barbara Ridley + WHEN IT’S OVER giveaway

We are so excited to welcome Barbara Ridley to the Debutante Ball this week! Barbara was born in England but has lived…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2019Monday, January 7, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Devi’s 2019 reading list (well, as of the first week of Jan.)

I have my eyes on so many books this year! Like my beloved colleagues at the Debutante Ball I came…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, January 1, 2019Saturday, December 22, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Resolutions and Resolve

Happy 2019. I could get very specific and that may actually help in the long run. But I think I’m…

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