From the 2011 Debs… Deb Eleanor will be at the Monument Art Hop in Monument, CO this Thursday with YA author Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer, Fixing Delilah), compliments of Covered Treasure Bookstore! Hope to see you there! Deb Tawna had an exciting week! First, she was flattered to be included in a Writer’s Digest article listing “10 Notable Debuts.” Then she found her inbox flooded with email from people…
Congrats to Ashlyn Rae who won Katie’ Alender’s From Bad to Cursed. Katie can be found online at KatieAlender.com, Twitter, and Facebook. From the 2011 Debs… Deb Eleanor is excited to be spending a few days in New Orleans, visiting with some of her favorite kind of people….librarians! The annual ALA conference is wrapping up, and I can’t wait to talk books and eat beignet! Oh, and I’ll be at the…
Congrats to Jennifer who won Camille Noe Pagan’s The Art of Forgetting. From the 2011 Debs… Deb Eleanor is so excited to be visiting The Bookworm in Edwards, CO this Thursday the 23rd! I’ve been hearing about The Bookworm since I moved to Colorado, and I can’t wait to see it in person. Mountains, here I come! Deb Elise spent Friday night at the Emmys! She was nominated for her writing…
Deb Kim here. I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming John Elder Robison to The Debutante Ball. I met John a few years ago, after he sold Look Me In The Eye to Crown, a division of Random House. John is tall, dark and Aspergian. He has Asperger’s syndrome, which falls on the autism spectrum. You probably know his brother, another famous writer named Augusten Burroughs. John’s new book, Be Different was…
I read an ARC of Deb Kim’s All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa a month ago, and I’m still thinking about it. This is high praise from someone who regularly watches movies and reads books only to discover halfway through that I have read or seen them before. I have the memory of a goldfish. But Kim Stagliano’s book is different – her story is absolutely memorable, and…
You know the phrase “you had me at ‘hello’”? Kim Stagliano had me at “We’d ripped through our savings like toilet paper on your first night in Mexico.” How can you not want to hang with that? Reading Deb Kim’s All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa (A Life Raising Three Daughters With Autism) is like having a long conversation with your best friend from forever — the one…
Do you have Elixir fever? I do! While Deb Eleanor brought you a very thoughtful list of things Deb Elise’s new co-authored book with Ms. Hilary Duff reminded her of, I can’t help but confess that every time I think of the book or look at the cover I instantly think, fondly, of grape-flavored Dimetapp. Strange? I know! But the cover is incredibly engaging and transfixing to me. You see–I…
One of the perks of being part of The Debutante Ball is being able to read advance reader copies of some wonderful books. It’s like being introduced to a whole new crowd of friends or tasty foods you might never have ordered or cities you’d never thought to visit. Elixir, by actress and author Hilary Duff (and co-written by Deb Elise) is a perfect example. I’m well past “Young Adult,” age though I…
From the 2011 Debs… Deb Eleanor’s The Weird Sisters has its first review! Library Journal calls it “lovely”, with “creative and original” narration. Woohoo! Deb Kim is into countdown mode for her book launch on November 1st. Excited and a bit nervous. OK, a lot nervous! Deb Sarah’s latest Real Simple article, The Winter Washing Guide (how and when to wash all your favorite winter weather staples), is out this…
From the 2011 Debs… Sarah’s debut novel, THE VIOLETS OF MARCH, now has a … cover! She describes it as “rustic, beautiful and slightly mysterious” but can’t show us quite yet. So use your imaginations, and the big reveal will happen soon! In other news, check out Sarah’s latest article for WomansDay.com (she’s a weekly health contributor): 10 Surprising Things About Dreams (you know, in case you’re trying to figure…
