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News Flash, July 26

Deb Meredith will be at the Hanover Book Festival Saturday August 1 in Mechanicsville, VA signing POSED FOR MURDER. And at 2:15, she'll be teaching a screenwriting workshop.

Deb Kristina was so pleased to see this lovely review from Joelle Anthony, in which she says "it's often hilarious and laugh out loud." Also, Kristina's fellow Literary Mama editor Caroline Grant called REAL LIFE & LIARS "sharply funny" on her blog.

Kristina's Michigan book tour takes her through the north this coming week. C

To action or not to action? Guest post by Sherry Thomas

Sherry Thomas is the author of Private Arrangements, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008. Her sophomore book, Delicious, is a Library Journal Best Romance of 2008. Her latest book is Not Quite a Husband. Lisa Kleypas calls her "the most powerfully original historical romance author working today." Along with enthusiastic endorsements from trade publications and New York Times bestselling authors, her books have also received stellar reviews from many of the most highly trafficked romance re

The Monkey Gunking Up The Whole Works, by Deb Eve

I'm not really sure what myths I believed about publishing before I published my book. No doubt, I thought pretty much what I have always thought about most of the hard things I've ever had to tackle in life. If you do your absolute best, put your heart and soul into it, persevere, think positively and be nice - then things will probably turn out pretty well.

I still believe that … about most things in life anyway. But what I'm learning is that when it comes to book publishing, all bets are off.

Personal Mythology by Deb Tiffany

I totally agree with what everyone's said this week. There are no easy answers when you write. You shouldn't do it for the dollars, and the only way to get anything done is to put your butt in the chair and hands on the keyboard.

But I wonder if we should debunk ALL the writing myths. For a while, I really thought so. I was a total hardass. I refused to accept writer's block. I wrote even when the writing was awful. I really tried to treat it like a day job.

The problem is, writing is not a day jo

My Favorite Writing Myths by Deb Meredith

The interesting thing about being a writer is how many opinions people have about writing as a career. Maybe it's because most people have had to write something in their life—an essay in school, a letter to get a job, an email to complain about service at a hotel—and they think they know something about the "writing life."

Here are some of my favorite writing myths:

Writing is easy. This is one of my favorites. Although the drafting of the letter to apply for that job was hard, writing ficti

The resounding thud of reality, by Deb Katie

The writing myth I'm going to debunk is a biggie. It's big enough, in fact, to stop the faint-hearted in their tracks. (Although I've found that we don't have a lot of faint-hearted readers here at the Ball, so you're probably safe.)

I remember vividly the day I read this in a magazine–probably "Writer's Digest." I was already subscribing to "Writer's Digest," which in some way meant that I was considering a future as an author. There were probably several early drafts of "Bad Girls Don't Die" st

In which Deb Kristina is not complaining (not much, anyway)

Here's my revelation about being published: you don't walk around in a cloud of stardust every minute.

Eventually, it gets routine, even dull. Being a published author starts to feel ordinary, because, well, it is ordinary when you're in it.

Mind you, I'm a positive, upbeat person, so much so that I strongly suspect certain people have wanted to punch me in the nose.

However. Even I, the original Pollyanna, have my not-great days as a published author. As I said in a thread at the writing community

News Flash, July 19

New Englanders and those enjoying a New England vacation can catch Deb Eve at various lovely locations this week! She'll be at Boswell's Books (just off the Bridge of Flowers) in Shelburne Falls, MA on Monday, July 20 at 7 PM; at Other Tiger Bookstore in Westerly, RI on Friday, July 24 from 4-6 PM; and The Book and Tackle Shop (next to the famous carousel!) in Watch Hill, RI on Saturday, July 25.

While in Santa Fe this past week, Deb Eve was interviewed by Mary-Charlotte of KSFR for Santa Fe

What goes on in my head as reflected by what's on my walls by Deb Eve

I think I have one of the nicest offices of anyone I know. My daily commute consists of rolling out of bed and shuffling a few feet down the hallway. My boss doesn't care when I show up or if I show up in my pajamas. Plenty of birds come by to visit; sometimes deer. Okay, it's pretty cold in the winter, but then I go south to my winter office. Er … I take my laptop downstairs by the woodstove.

But maybe the nicest part might be what I get to look at - well, besides the incredible view of New Eng

Up a Creek by Deb Tiffany

Basically, there are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who move into a house, and have everything put away and perfect five minutes later (my sister), and the rest of us.

We moved a year and a half ago, and we still haven't hung all our art, if you want to call it that. Instead, our decor is more of a work in progress, but there's one thing we always put up right away wherever we are, and that's my husband's oar from Cambridge.

Don't even ask about getting that thing over from England, su