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The muse that’s worth the wait, by Deb Katie

I used to say my muse was my little green notebook. But that’s not quite accurate. My notebooks are more like partners. I actually have a series of retired notebooks, the way old British aristocracy would have a series of beloved hunting dogs, generation after generation, who had served them well and faithfully over the years. First there was the blue one; then the green; now the white flowered; soon another green one. These little books are treasure troves of ideas and information about all of

In which Deb Kristina’s muse is unreliable

I like to imagine my muse with a cigar clamped in his teeth, wearing a fedora with a press card in the brim, and two fingers of whiskey at his side, the ice not having had a chance to melt in the glass as he takes another slug. He types furiously, of course, on a manual typerwriter which creates a serious din that means WORK is being produced.

(Sometimes, the soft tapping on my Dell just doesn’t feel significant enough. I miss the fierce way I could SMACK the carriage return arm and start another

News Flash, May 31

THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY went international this week, launching in the UK.

Little Giant was chosen by Waterstone’s Books to be part of its Book Circle promotion, and just received a four star review in OK Magazine! In addition to the UK, the book will also be released in Israel, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

Deb Kristina will make her first official tour appearance for REAL LIFE & LIARS at the Printers Row Lit Fest on June 7 in Chicago, where she will appear on a pa

A Long Way from Where We Used to Live by Guest Author Joshilyn Jackson

We’re very pleased to have Joshilyn Jackson as our guest today on the ball. Her third novel, The Girl Who Stopped

Swimming, was a national bestseller that Entertainment Weekly called a “ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one… a wild, smartly calibrated achievement.” It released in paperback this week. She is also the author of the award winning novels Gods in Alabama and Between, Georgia.

I’m a geek, okay? Not just “a little geeky.” A little geeky would be going
to see th

Deb Eve’s Best & Worst Travel Recommendations

As anyone who’s been following The Ball this year - or who has read FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MALARIA - knows, it might seem as if I have traveled a lot. But the other day, I met up with a dear friend who racks up frequent flier miles like the rest of us collect dryer lint. Listening to her most recent jaunts between Atlanta, Zambia, China and Laos, (she’s the director of the CDC’s Global AIDS Program) I feel as if I’ve never even left the farm.

So, mindful of all the places in the world I h

Close to Home by Deb Tiffany

With three, little kids, I’ve sort of hung up my traveling shoes for a while (and, besides, I’m totally bowing down in the traveling department to Deb Eve), but I have this theory about traveling. You don’t necessarily have to go anywhere to do it.

Maybe I have this attitude because I traveled so much when I was growing up. My mom used to take me on these wild trips (London to Hong Kong by train, anyone? No? How about hiking in the hill country of Thailand?), and I went abroad to France during hi

Traveling the World… On the Cheap by Deb Meredith

If there’s one thing my family taught me, it’s how to travel on a budget. We camped on our vacations or stayed with relatives (avoiding hotels). We also cooked on our own food on the road. The goal was to see as much as possible with a limited budget. We did okay because we did end up traveling a lot. We took a cross country road trip when I was eleven, went to England three times before I turned 14, and traveled through Europe when I was thirteen.

My parents are professors, so they always lik

Highlights recalled by a reluctant traveler, by Deb Katie

I never was much of a traveler. I’m no good at packing, I like my OWN bed and my OWN house (and heaven help you if you keep me up past my bedtime… and that’s Pacific time, thank you very much), and on top of all that, I’m such a contented homebody that I don’t feel the need to go elsewhere. (Until I have a couple of glasses of wine, and then suddenly I’m a world traveler in the making… “Why DON’T we go to Argentina next year??”)

But even a grumpy troll like me manages to relax and enjoy myself fr

In which Deb Kristina ha viaggato nell’Italia

My best vacation ever came out of my only regret.

It was 1996, or maybe 1997, and my husband and I were poverty-stricken newlyweds living in a dodgy apartment (we once came home to find police surrounding one of the buildings, and later heard there were shots fired and people seen fleeing out of windows). Bruce worked at night, which meant in the evenings I was ready for happy hour and he was all set for bacon and eggs, and those were on the days we managed to see each other at all.

One day we wer

News Flash, May 24

Deb Meredith will be speaking at the Sheepshead Bay branch of the Brooklyn Library Wednesday, May 27 at 2 PM. And she’ll be at the Mystery Writers of America Booth at BookExpo of America on Saturday, May 30.

Deb Kristina will have a guest post go “live” tomorrow at A Book Blogger’s Diary, here, in conjunction with a contest to win a signed copy! Also, historical romance author Sherry Thomas continues her contest for a signed copy of Liars, here.

Deb Eve will be interviewed by Frankie Boyer on the