The Debutante Ball

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

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  • Posted on Monday, September 16, 2019Monday, September 16, 2019
  • by Lisa Braxton

My path to publication required the right shoes

I arrived at the book fair exhibit hall of AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference hopeful that…

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  • Posted on Friday, April 19, 2019Tuesday, April 16, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Writing Finances

      I am not a finance person. When I think of the words “financial” and “realities” in the…

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  • Posted on Friday, February 1, 2019Monday, January 28, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

I Thought Branding Was Only For Livestock

    Publishing my first book in 2019, I often find myself daydreaming about what it must have been like…

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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 Friday, January 25, 2019Wednesday, January 23, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

The Comp I Kept

    I know you’ll all be shocked when I announce that I did not use comp titles in my…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2018Monday, November 19, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Gratitude

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has…

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  • Posted on Friday, November 16, 2018Tuesday, November 13, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Tips for Querying (or as I like to call them, Q-tips)

  You know how they say you should never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear? I know…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2018Monday, November 12, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Channeling Jean Kwok (and you can too!)

  “The query letter is…the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write” — Nicholas Spark This week’s…

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  • Posted on Friday, September 21, 2018Wednesday, September 19, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

The Alpine Path

    Those of you who read my post last week may remember that most of it was reminiscing about…

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  • Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2018Thursday, September 20, 2018
  • by Stephanie Jimenez

Choose Your Own Adventure: Two Stories About the Querying Process

This week for The Debutante Ball, we’re sharing our journey to getting a literary agent, so I dug through the…

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