How to Write and Sell Your Memoir: Free Webinar from Writer's Digest
About The Book
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. This book 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:
1. Identify strong opening and closing points
2. Find and develop a strong central hook that readers can relate to
3. Structure a memoir to maximize readability
4. Use dialogue and pacing to enhance intimacy
5. Approach honesty and truthfulness
6. Build a successful author platform around their memoir
7. Get an agent's attention
About the Author
Paula Balzer has been a literary agent for New York Times best-selling author Alexandra Robbins, Oscar-award winning writer Diablo Cody and American Idol judge Randy Jackson. She has also worked in some of New York's best literary agencies where her authors included Dava Sobel, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Linda Greenlaw.
Read an excerpt
Paula is also hosting a free Webinar on June 20, 2011 on the topic How to Write a Marketable Memoir.
Here's the link where you can sign up.
http://writersdigest.com/article/writing-memoir
Writer's Digest Books, 2011
ISBN: 978-1-59963-135-6
$17.99, paperback, 240 pages
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