bucket list – The Debutante Ball

Interview with Rachel Mans McKenny, author of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

This week’s interview is with Rachel Mans McKenny, whose book THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT comes out on December 8th and tells the story of an entomology PhD during a year of family and romance-related drama. Read below about Rachel’s road to publication, her bucket list, the best money she’s spent as a writer, and more! ABOUT RACHEL Rachel Mans McKenny is a writer, professor, and humorist from the Midwest. Her…

Kathleen’s Career Fantasties: A Bucket List for the Ages

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

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Writing a career bucket list seems in direct opposition to my New Year’s Resolution to take one thing at a time. But, I’m nothing if not a rule-follower, and my assigned topic this week is a bucket list, so here we go. It’s a writer’s dream: I’d like to buy a fancy new dress in order to attend a Hollywood party celebrating the successful adaptation of my work. Let’s take…

A Year or a Career

Friday, January 18, 2019

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Before writing this blog post, I never really gave much thought to a bucket list for this year. Or a career bucket list, for that matter. I daydream about miraculous debut and career events all the time: I see my book in O Magazine. Terry Gross wants to interview me on Fresh Air. I make the NYT bestseller list. Wait, they get bigger: eventually, I win the Pulitzer…

5 Things You May Not Know About COME AWAY WITH ME

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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Well, it’s here. THE DAY has arrived. I’m a published author. I’ve now checked off bucket list item #34 – Write a novel and get it published. The book is out in the wild…which means people are reading it. (Thank you!) People I don’t know. Which is thrilling. And scary. And awesome. And scary. (Wait, did I already say that?) And through it all I’m a complex mix of excited, exhilarated, and exhausted,…

You’re Only a Debut (Author) Once…and it’s AWESOME.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

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With one week to go until COME AWAY WITH ME is out in the wild, I’m still feeling quite green about this whole author thing. And I wonder, do you think being a debut author extends way into the first year your book is out, much like the term ‘newlywed’ applies until you’ve been married for a year? I hope so, because it’s been one pretty amazing, pinch-me kind of year…