The Debutante Ball

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

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  • Posted on Friday, May 17, 2019Wednesday, May 15, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

A Writer at Any Age

    Because my release day fell on my birthday, I’ve already written a little about writing and age. One…

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  • 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 Saturday, April 20, 2019Wednesday, April 17, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Interview with Kirstin Chen and Giveaway for BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE

  I could not be more thrilled to welcome this week’s guest, Kirstin Chen, to the debutante ball! Kirstin Chen’s…

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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 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, April 9, 2019Sunday, August 25, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: The Dream Peddler…is captivating

As a Deb this year, I’ve had the enormous privilege of working with four amazing, super-talented writers. And I’m so…

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  • Posted on Friday, March 29, 2019Tuesday, March 26, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Love Story, Perfect Day

  If you’ve never seen Love Story starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw, then you many not know that yes,…

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  • Posted on Monday, March 18, 2019Wednesday, March 13, 2019
  • by K.A. Doore

What’s Important

My book is out tomorrow. My book. Is out. Tomorrow. That is a weird thing to say. A weird thing…

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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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