Virginia Woolf – The Debutante Ball

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Words to Live By & Words to Write By

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

All of my writing mentors have at one point said the same thing: Don’t give up. Keep Writing. When you’re stuck, change your surroundings. and my once-upon-a-time teacher teacher Lucille Clifton said, read your work aloud — if you start to stumble, if your tongue starts to trip up, then cut what you’ve written. Here’s some W.O.W. (words of wisdom): (thanks to AZ Quotes) My mission in life is not…

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…

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: The Twice-Born Book

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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The Twice-Born Book: I wrote my first book because I wanted to read it – Toni Morrison I’m a voracious reader. I admit it. I started young – one of my favorite books came in to my possession when I turned nine. A friend of the family gave me Anthony B. Lake’s A Pleasury of Witticisms and Word Play. Inside those pages I learned all about anagrams and palindromes,…

Guest author Priya Parmar on writing & why Mom is always right.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

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Today at the Ball we welcome author Priya Parmar, whose VANESSA AND HER SISTER is an insightful work of historical fiction that follows the early years of the Bloomsbury group, a clique of 1950s intellectuals that yielded the genius of novelist E.M. Forster, economist John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf. At its heart is the relationship between two sisters, Woolf and her sibling Vanessa Bell, who’s plagued by the writer’s…