"WHY SHOULD I READ BOOK REVIEWS?" A client asked me this recently. Let me count the reasons why writers should read book reviews, for there are many, starting with the simplest and most direct of them … [Read more...] about Five Reasons For Writers to Read Book Reviews
The Memoir Project Blog
My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW, I have spent much of this summer reading the 1,600 plus pages of Elena Ferrante’s four Neopolitan novels. And like all of those people, I have simultaneously watched the … [Read more...] about My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
Join Me at Tribe Conference
IT FEELS LIKE THE PERFECT online dating experience: You meet over the internet, get along great and then spend a lot of time getting along even better only to then agree to meet in person. Now … [Read more...] about Join Me at Tribe Conference
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/17/16
The view from here is that a stint in the United States Senate has too much in common with a barroom brawl: Irrational, brutal and frequently serving no one, it can seem without merit. But then comes … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/17/16
Writing Lessons: How to Write Memoir? Listen to Nora Ephron
WRITING ADVICE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. I know, I am a memoir coach, and I treat each of the problems of my clients as if they are my own. The truth is that we all need someone to whom to pitch our stuff, … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Write Memoir? Listen to Nora Ephron
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/10/16
The way The New York Review of Books sees it, some are born to be warriors, or so it is written in a recent essay on a warrior memoir. What do you think? And does the same apply to other professions … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/10/16
