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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

My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 5/27/16

MY VIEW OF THE WORLD is always seen through the lens of whether or not something would make good copy. After all, so much of life informs our writing. I mean there is family, after all. Ah, family. I … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 5/27/16

My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 5/7/16

AS MAY ROLLS ALONG, many of you are planning to ship out for summer and choosing what to pack for that beach bag of sandy reading. The way I see it, it’s going to be a very good summer, indeed, though … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 5/7/16

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