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News Flash, July 5

Deb Meredith will be going to Chicago next weekend! Come see her in Madison, Wisconsin July 9 at Booked for Murder at 6 PM, or on July 10 at the Niles Library in Niles, IL on a mystery panel at 7:00 PM. And for all you librarians out there, she'll be signing POSED FOR MURDER at the MacMillan Booth at ALA on Saturday July 11 at 10:45 AM.

A lovely feature article about Deb Eve appeared in the Staten Island Advance last week. This week, Eve will be at Booklink in Northampton, MA on Thursday, July

If I Knew Now What I'll Know Then by Deb Meredith

There are those few moments in life so huge that by passing through them, you become someone different. You become a new version of you. And no matter what you told yourself before the event, it wouldn't matter. You'd probably still charge ahead and do it.

Graduation. Marriage. Childbirth. Book deal. Buying a house. Moving. So one day you're a college student, a single person, a struggling writer, a renter—and then suddenly you're a graduate, a wife, a mother, a published author, or a hom

Dear Young Eve by Deb Old Eve

Dear Eve at 12,

Your family is not as odd as you think they are (well, some of them are. But that's not your problem). You're doing fine. Your teeth will straighten out, you really do have good hair and your handwriting will improve (although in twenty years no one will write anything by hand anymore and it won't matter).

Try not to worry. Trust me.

Dear Eve at 16,
Your family is as odd as you think they are. But that's okay. Try paying attention in school, you really can learn some useful stuff.

The Awful Truth by Deb Tiffany

I was going to write the standard letter to my younger self (quit trying to lose ten pounds, learn to say no, don't date the bad boyfriend, etc.), but then I thought what would be really useful for this blog would be a letter to my starry-eyed, fresh-faced, debut self about the truth of being published. So here it goes:

The week your novel comes out, everyone you ever knew will get in touch with you. This will be fun, but also exhausting, and after a short time of this, you will become paranoid t

Notes from my Younger Self by Guest Author Sandra Kring

We're very happy to welcome guest author Sandra Kring to the ball. Her debut novel, Carry Me Home, was a Book Sense Notable pick and a 2005 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award nominee. The Book of Bright Ideas was a 2006 Target Bookmarked selection, and Thank You for All Things was All You magazine's book club pick for October, 2007. Her fourth book, How High the Moon, will be released April, 2010.

Anyone who comments today will be entered to win an autographed copy of Sandra's book, Thank You

A letter to myself, circa 1990, by Deb Katie

Dear Katie,

Oh, Katie, Katie, Katie.

There are a lot of things I could tell you but won't, because as tempting as it would be to give you all the lottery numbers and sports scores, that would change a lot of things that I'd just as soon not change.

Instead, I'll just tell you that, yes, this is definitely your awkward stage. And yes, you will grow out of it. The funny thing is that someday the things you're being made fun of for are going to be the things that your life is about. It's okay to be s

In which Deb Kristina tells her college self to lighten up already

Dear Kris,

Stop taking yourself so seriously. No really. Stop it. Look, I know you feel like everything you do now will reverberate down through the decades and color your entire life, but guess what? You're going to have babies and do other cool things that have nothing to do with the fact you slept through introductory geology on Friday morning. Believe me. I oughta know.

See, that fiasco the spring semester of junior year? The one that feels like it has ruined everything? It didn't. Thirteen ye

News Flash, June 28

Here are some interviews with Deb Kristina about REAL LIFE & LIARS that have appeared in the last week: Lansing City Pulse, Traverse Magazine online edition, and a review in her hometown paper, The Grand Rapids Press, saying the book is "bursting at the seams with believable people." You can also catch an archived radio interview performed by old college newspaper pals, here.

Kristina also this week had a guest blog appearance featuring her dog, Lucky, (complete with pictures!) and a lengthy inte

Sex and Typesetting by Guest Author Maggie Dana

We're very pleased to welcome Maggie Dana to the ball. A book designer and typesetter, Maggie is also the author of six books for children. Her first novel for grownups, Beachcombing, has just been published by Macmillan New Writing in the UK, where she's been doing a book tour and hiding from her family.

Sometimes old flames burn the brightest…

This is the tag line for Beachcombing, my debut novel. Pretty catchy, huh? My youthful editor at Macmillan came up with it for the cover. But see the wor

Some Sit Down Comedy by Deb Eve

Did I ever tell you guys I used to do stand up comedy? This was a couple of years ago and I was actually aiming to brush up on my Spanish. But when I looked through the continuing education catalog from our community college there were no Spanish classes that fit my schedule. But, it turns out that STand up comedy comes right after SPanish in the course catalog … and well, the rest is history.

I’d like to do some stand up comedy for you right here. But alcohol licensing laws don’t allow me to se