A Big Life for The Little Book That Could

IT’S BEEN A great time for The Memoir Project, my irreverent little book on how to write memoir. I was on the wonderful NPR show, Talk of the Nation. I’d love you to listen it, of course, and you can via the wonders of digital recording. Want to know how?

It’s easy. Here’s the NPR interview about The Memoir Project, my little book on how to write memoir.

Also yesterday, the ever-fabulous Gotham Writer’s Workshop published their newsletter in which they say the loveliest things. How’s this for a quote: “While there have been other writing books, there’s been nothing like Marion Roach Smith’s The Memoir Project.  Her book is a disarmingly frank, but wildly fun, distillation of all the unsentimental lessons that teach you to write with purpose.” I am delighted.

The book is getting other great coverage, including being named one of the top ten reads of the summer by Boston’s public radio station, WBUR, and by being wonderfully featured in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express News. You can see that fine feature piece here.

One of my favorite write-ups of my little book on how to write memoir is in the Philadelphia alternative weekly, CityPaper, who loved it, leading off the review by stating, “Marion Roach Smith’s guide to memoir writing made me want to do two things: learn more about Smith and write a memoir. I’d say that makes it a roaring success.”

This is so wonderful, particularly for a little book on how to write memoir that began as a self-published edition. I hope you’ll read it. Wait. Have you got your copy? You can buy it here as a paperback, here as an ebook or, if you’d like me to read it to you, go to Audible.com’s site for the book and let me whisper in your ear.