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Writing & Selling Your Memoir

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There's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.
A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often exceptionally difficult, time in someone's life. Writing & Selling Your Memoir talks readers through the process of telling their most personal stories in a compelling, relatable, and readable manner. Unlike other books dedicated to the art and craft of writing memoir, it teaches readers how to approach the genre with love, respect, and know-how without sentimentalizing it.
Drawing on her experience working with New York Times best-selling memoirists, literary agent Paula Balzer carefully explores the genre and provides readers with step-by-step instruction on how to:
   • Identify strong opening and closing points
   • Find and develop a strong central hook that readers can relate to
   • Structure a memoir to maximize readability
   • Use dialogue and pacing to enhance intimacy
   • Approach honesty and truthfulness
   • Build a successful author platform around their memoir
   • Get an agent's attention
   • Get published
Full of tips, techniques, detailed exercises, and examples from best-selling memoirs as well as sidebars from well-known memoir authors, Writing & Selling Your Memoir teaches you how to approach an often tricky genre and tell your story without sentimentalizing it.

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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 13, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781599634197
  • Release date: June 13, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781599634197
  • File size: 2329 KB
  • Release date: June 13, 2011

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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Languages

English

There's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.
A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often exceptionally difficult, time in someone's life. Writing & Selling Your Memoir talks readers through the process of telling their most personal stories in a compelling, relatable, and readable manner. Unlike other books dedicated to the art and craft of writing memoir, it teaches readers how to approach the genre with love, respect, and know-how without sentimentalizing it.
Drawing on her experience working with New York Times best-selling memoirists, literary agent Paula Balzer carefully explores the genre and provides readers with step-by-step instruction on how to:
   • Identify strong opening and closing points
   • Find and develop a strong central hook that readers can relate to
   • Structure a memoir to maximize readability
   • Use dialogue and pacing to enhance intimacy
   • Approach honesty and truthfulness
   • Build a successful author platform around their memoir
   • Get an agent's attention
   • Get published
Full of tips, techniques, detailed exercises, and examples from best-selling memoirs as well as sidebars from well-known memoir authors, Writing & Selling Your Memoir teaches you how to approach an often tricky genre and tell your story without sentimentalizing it.

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