Elizabeth Rosner – The Debutante Ball

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things….

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

These are some of my favorite books of 2018 (in no particular order): Heart Berries by Marie Terese Mailhot. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. There There by Tommy Orange. The Carrying by Ada Limon. Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight. Still Lives by Maria Hummel. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung. Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Christine O’Brien. Feeding a Thousand Souls by Vijaya Nagarajan. Old…

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Gratitude

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. — Albert Schweitzer I’m so grateful to so many this past year, for lifting me up when I was feeling low. Writing is often a lonely venture, and this time last year, I was discouraged….

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Candids

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol I suppose I could write an entire tome about my fears these days, how unsafe America is for people of color, how America is changing, how the rhetoric and public discourse has become so…

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: October 2018

Saturday, October 6, 2018

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Mahalo to our first four guest authors: Rene Denfeld, Lori Rader-Day, Suzanne Baltsar and Elizabeth Rosner. Please check out their interviews and read their amazing books! This week we welcome Nicole Blades and her novel, Have You Met Nora? ! Please read the guest author interview on The Debutante Ball site. Looking ahead: please be on the lookout for 45 or so more guest author interviews and giveaways — including Nicole…

Interview with Elizabeth Rosner and Survivor Cafe giveaway

Saturday, September 29, 2018

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I’m so, so happy to feature poet, novelist and now, non-fiction author Elizabeth Rosner on the blog this week! Elizabeth and I are literary agency AND publisher sisters – both represented by the wonderful DeFiore & Company in New York, publishing our books with the incredible Counterpoint Press located in Berkeley, CA. Elizabeth is the author of five, count-em five, books — and most recently her first non-fiction/memoir Survivor Café: The Legacy of…

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: A Circuitous Route

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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A Circuitous Route: The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at – Jimi Hendrix I have no way to express how stunned I am, sitting here today, holding my newly hatched ARCs. It is surreal to see this book in galley form, it is surreal to see my family hold my debut novel in their hands. By all accounts I should…

News Flash: Our Books, Holidays & Giveaways!

Sunday, December 21, 2014

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Congratulations to Nancy Allen, winner of the signed copy of ELECTRIC CITY by guest author Elizabeth Rosner! Check back next Sunday for this week’s winner of VANESSA AND HER SISTER by guest author Priya Parmar … From the 2015 Debs: Colleen Oakley is thrilled about the great reviews for BEFORE I GO in January’s Good Housekeeping and Eidé magazines (both on stands now)! And she can’t believe it’s…

Elizabeth Rosner and the Language of Science (Book Giveaway!)

Saturday, December 13, 2014

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This week is for all you literary science geeks out there. (We know you exist!) Our guest is Elizabeth Rosner, author of the novel ELECTRIC CITY and the poetry collection GRAVITY (both released in October). As probably the nerdiest of the Debs, ELECTRIC CITY especially has huge appeal for me. I’m reading it now and it’s amazing. I met Liz a few years ago when I took one of her writing…