The Debutante Ball

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

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Tag: Martine Fournier Watson

  • Posted on Friday, May 3, 2019Thursday, May 2, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Maybe You CAN Take the City out of the Girl

  I’ve lived in a number of different places across Canada and the United States, and I think to some…

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  • Posted on Friday, April 26, 2019Wednesday, April 24, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Dear Booksellers…

    Like most writers, I’ve been an avid reader since the day I learned to read, and some of…

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  • Posted on Friday, April 12, 2019Wednesday, April 10, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

You Say It’s Your Birthday…

  …It’s my birthday, too. On Tuesday this week, when my book officially came out, I also turned forty-four years…

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  • Posted on Friday, January 18, 2019Thursday, January 10, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

A Year or a Career

    Before writing this blog post, I never really gave much thought to a bucket list for this year.…

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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 Friday, November 9, 2018Wednesday, November 7, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Driven to Distraction

  Tips to keep your writing distractions to a minimum: Don’t have children. Download one of those apps like FocusMe…

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  • Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2018Saturday, November 3, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Interview with Karen Meadows and Giveaway of ALMOND, EYELESS

  It gives me great pleasure to welcome poet Karen Meadows to the Debutante Ball this week! almond, eyeless (2018, Groundhog…

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  • Posted on Friday, November 2, 2018Tuesday, October 30, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

How I Fear: Facing Every Arduous Revision

    I forget which author it was who said that we write about what terrifies us—most likely many of…

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  • Posted on Friday, October 19, 2018Tuesday, October 16, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

A Childhood Bookshelf

    Most writers are also avid readers. That’s usually how we got here. So when you ask us what…

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  • Posted on Friday, October 12, 2018Tuesday, October 9, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Dorothy Parker and the Vicious First Draft

    It is one of the minor tragedies of my life, perhaps a major tragedy in my writing life,…

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