As a literal debutante I'd be well past my expiration date, but as a member of the group blog ("grog") The Debutante Ball (http://www.thedebutanteball.com), I am ageless. The Debutante Ball celebrates five debut authors, and I am delighted to have been tapped for this honor. I'll be blogging Mondays starting Sept. 1, though for the first few weeks I'll be sharing the dance floor with Gail Konop-Baker, whose memoir CANCER IS A BITCH is making its debut in October.

My fellow Debs in the 2009 class are:

Eve Brown-Waite, author of the memoir First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life (Broadway Books/April 2009).

Tiffany Baker, author of the literary novel The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Grand Central Publishing, January 2009).

Katie Alender, author of the YA thriller Bad Girls Don’t Die (Disney/Hyperion, April 2009).

Meredith Cole, author of the mystery novel Posed for Murder (St. Martin’s Press, February 2009).

I'd better brush up on my curtsy...