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How to write a five-star book proposal (opens the original)
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I’ve been pretty resistant to writing a proposal for my memoir. Why should I have to write a whole book, in a very challenging genre, plus a 50-75 page outline and business plan for it? Novelists don’t have to! See what I mean? Resistant. I’m also very aware how hard it is to sell memoir and narrative nonfiction right now. The publishing industry megaphone is very LOUD on this point. (We writers have had to put our fingers in our ears and write the books we’re called to write anyway!) So I get w
It’s time to write your memoir (opens the original)
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Hi beloved Subscribers, It sure feels like fall in the Catskills. Here in my backyard, which requires a puffer vest today (brrrr), my German Shepherd is napping, and occasionally tiny leaves falling from the birch tree startle her giant dog body awake. It’s pretty cute. I’m popping into your screen to share a few opportunities for us to hang out on Zoom and IRL! <img alt="https://tinyurl.com/fall2
A memoir that posthumously pieces a parent back together (and the author, too) (opens the original)
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Hi friends, Romans, Subscribers, Happy September! I’ve got your Memoiring Book Club Pick for September right here, plus the sign-up link you’ll need to attend the always-amazing author conversation. This month we’re reading The Dead Dad Diaries by poet, professor, and potter Erin Slaughter. It’s “part true-crime story and part poetic meditation on seeking to know a parent posthumously.” She uses experimental forms to engage with external evidence, such as court documents, and her father’s diarie
How are we writing about trauma now? (opens the original)
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It’s not too late to join us Wednesday for our convo with musician-author on Zoom. You don’t have to have read the book to attend. IMO being there and chatting with the author will make you WANT to read it. <img alt=""
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