Tag: memoir
Authorlink Chat: Debut Author Searches for Her Identity
Can a person triumph over dissociative disorder? Alice did. Interview: Everything/Nothing/Someone, Alice Carrière, Spiegel and Grau – Authorlink® talks with Alice Carrière about her powerful literary debut, the story of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s …
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Books to Read: Lost and Broken by Congressman Adam Smith
Books to Read: Adam Smith, 26-year member of Congress and Chair of the House Armed Services Committee for the last four years, offers a candid memoir about his years-long struggle with anxiety and chronic pain, and the winding path to find the right diagnosis and treatment.
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Interview: Widowish, Healing Through Writing About Grief
Widowish, Melissa Gould, Little Brown – When her beloved husband died unexpectedly of Multiple Sclerosis and West Nile Virus, writer Melissa Gould started chronicling her grief journey through her personal essays and speaking engagements.
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Interview: Author Struggles With True Black Identity in a Loving White Family
Raceless, Georgina Lawton, Harper Perennial – Georgina Lawton grew up in England with white parents, a white brother and white everyone else. No one wanted to talk about why she didn’t look like the rest of them.
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Should Your Memoir Have the Shape of a Novel?
Writing Insights – Should Your Memoir Have the Shape of a Novel?
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35th Central Coast Writers Conference Explores Craft, Courage
Writers Paradise for All: The 35th Annual Central Coast Writers Conference – Explores Craft, Connection, Courage, Culinary Delights and even Downward Dog
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From Scratch by Tembi Locke
From Scratch, Tembi Locke, Simon & Schuster – Actor and TEDx speaker Tembi Locke’s memoir, “From Scratch,” is a documentation of a complicated journey of a Black American whose Sicilian husband is disowned by his family who objected to their biracial marriage.
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Memoir, Biography, Narrative Nonfiction—How Are They Different?
Lisa Dale Norton – Memoir, Biography, Narrative Nonfiction—How Are They Different
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How to Avoid Mid-Story Memoir Sag
Lisa Dale Norton – All sorts of tales can lead to story sag . . .
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Deidre Knight Agency Tops in Film Options and Bestsellers
Deidre Knight established The Knight Agency in 1996 after working in the entertainment industry....
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How to Avoid Mid-story Memoir Sag
How to Avoid Mid-story Memoir Sag – You are in good company if you are battling mid-story sag. Nearly all memoir
writers hit a point where they sit up one day and say: What is this thing about?
Why a Story Question is Essential in Memoir Writing
Why a Story Question is Essential in Memoir, Lisa Dale Norton – In today’s marketplace, a memoir that attracts the attention of an agent and editor, pursues some kind of story question.
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