{"id":1067,"date":"2008-08-21T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2008-08-21T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T01:06:00","slug":"attention-authorial-debutantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/08\/21\/attention-authorial-debutantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Authorial Debutantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SK6kxqBHEuI\/AAAAAAAAB2I\/b5BpeRnkM3E\/s1600-h\/masthead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SK6kxqBHEuI\/AAAAAAAAB2I\/b5BpeRnkM3E\/s200\/masthead.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For all you first-time authors out there, I just came upon a very cool find.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedebutanteball.com\/\">The Debutante Ball<\/a> is a group blog for debut authors (looks like almost exclusively women).   They offer &#8220;takes on weekly bookish and not-so-bookish topics&#8221; and invite readers to &#8220;watch our collective sanity crumble as our debuts approach.&#8221;  Man, I know the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Thought I&#8217;d share some links from their blogroll, as they list a number of other group blogs about books that GWP readers may find of interest:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"xoxo blogroll\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/channeling-erma.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"me\" title=\"humorous writing about parenthood\">Channeling Erma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkwritertalk.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drunk Writer Talk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good-girls-kill.com\/\" title=\"Grog\" target=\"_blank\">Good Girls Kill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jungleredwriters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle Red<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedauthors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Naked Authors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrublog.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Grub Street Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Dreadful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketgirls.org\/\">Rocket Girls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersgroupblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Group Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> And speaking of group blogs, I just heard a new term to describe them: &#8220;grog.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t think I like.  Sounds too much like &#8220;frog&#8221;, or a drink you swig at an Irish bar, no?  I think I&#8217;ll stick with &#8220;group blog&#8221; when referring to the future incarnation of GWP.  Unless anyone else has a suggestion?  I&#8217;m open!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you first-time authors out there, I just came upon a very cool find. The Debutante Ball is a group blog for debut authors (looks like almost exclusively women). They offer &#8220;takes on weekly bookish and not-so-bookish topics&#8221; and invite readers to &#8220;watch our collective sanity crumble as our debuts approach.&#8221; Man, I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}