HeyJaredMy Jagged Journey as a Debut Writer
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Finalizing and Promoting Your Audiobook (opens the original)
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Finishing an audiobook takes more steps than you might think. I am about a month away from publishing my paperback and e-book. My audiobook will be available at the same time. However, I have been promoting my book, my podcasts, my newly published essays, and my upcoming book events (all available on my author website: robinrosenbluth.com).My audiobook is now in its final stages and has yet to be listed alongside my paperback and Kindle versions of my memoir. My audio producer, Lucent LLC, has r
My Alternative to an MFA: Published by Women Writers, Women’s Books (opens the original)
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When I decided to write a memoir about the transformative year I spent in Northern Kenya, living with the semi-nomadic Samburu and Rendille tribes, I had little experience writing creative nonfiction. After almost 10 years, I completed my first draft of Living with Strangers, which covered my childhood and teenage years in foster care, as well as the year I lived in Kenya. I wanted to write this memoir to show the common bonds we can form with people from diverse cultures. I also wanted to educa
Learning from Another Culture (opens the original)
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Songa is a place of diverse customs, unlike any I have ever experienced. Yet despite our cultural differences, I realize that everyone struggles at some point in life to figure out what choices they will make, how they want to live, and who they want to spend time with. I find that everyone is simply trying to get by, as we all do, in every corner of the planet.It’s not just religion or the clothes people wear that highlight the clash of cultures between traditional and modern, or Western, ways.
Was Being in Foster Care Better Than Living with My Negligent Father? (opens the original)
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.When I was 8 years old, my mother died at 38. For a short while, my father tried to fill the void as best he could. He’d been deeply in love with my mother, who’d stayed home for 18 years, raising four children. With my mother’s guiding hand, he provided for his family by working multiple low-paying jobs, letting her manage the money, and enjoying the support of our extended family, especially my mother’s twin sister and her family.My father became unmoored by her loss. He was one of those men
My Jagged Journey as a Debut Writer (opens the original)
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When writing a book, in my case a memoir, authors can use either a braided format or flashbacks.Braided StoryA braided memoir features two or more narrative strands interwoven throughout the book. Each strand has its own story, tension, characters, and trajectory. The two strands may occur in different places, at different time periods, or involve different people. As much as possible, the storylines should intersect in ways that relate to the previous or following chapter. Both stories provide
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