January 19, 2018
STRUCTURE A MEMOIR, write a memoir, sell a memoir. Sound like a good mantra for the new year? If so, let’s heighten it. Structure...
January 12, 2018
DOES WRITING A BOOK FEEL LIKE facing a hazardous obstacle course? It doesn’t have to, because the biggest challenges to writing a book are...
January 8, 2018
LIKE YOU, I JUST SAT through several of the highest of emotional high holy days of holidays with friends and family, during which...
January 4, 2018
KNOWING HOW TO CHOOSE your memoir structure is essential to your book’s success. Period. Full stop. And this is why I devote many...
December 7, 2017
WHAT IS A MEMOIR? It is a piece of writing told from one area of your expertise that illustrates something you know resulting from...
November 26, 2017
“What is the one thing I need to know to write a book?” I am asked this all the time, and I used to...
September 24, 2017
How to choose the right story to tell? It’s a great question, and one that plagues every memoirist. But it’s the essential question, because...
August 17, 2017
The best advice for getting a book contract for your memoir is this: Write an Op-ed. Why? Because every piece of non-fiction is...
July 19, 2017
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH A BOOK includes understanding both what to do and, of course, what not to do. And while I...
July 11, 2017
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE A BOOK just got a whole lot easier — as it should, since the online world is bringing together people...
June 24, 2017
KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE between memoir and autobiography is essential to writing successfully in either genre, and yet it is probably the single most...
May 15, 2017
GETTING PUBLISHED IN AN ANTHOLOGY is something I regularly recommend as a goal to my memoir coaching clients. It’s a joy to see...
