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Can the Truth be Handled? A Conversation in Search of an Answer | Beth Kephart 26 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Member Teleseminar September 20, 2013 11 AM PDT 12 PM MDT 1 PM CDT 2 PM EDT As the award-winning author of five memoirs and a teacher of memoir at the University of Pennsylvania, Beth Kephart...
How to Make Your Book Launch “Party” a Success | Sonia Marsh 22 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
I’d like to give you some ideas on how to create a “gutsy” book launch that’s different, and promises that you won’t be sitting alone behind a desk, hoping that someone will show up to buy your book. ...
How to take the Overwhelm out of Social Media and Develop your Platform | Q&A with Dan Blank 16 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
FREE Roundtable Discussion September 12, 2013 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Fellow memoirists and writers–Sometimes we can feel that the social media octopus has grabbed us with its m...
You’ve Published a Memoir–Now How Do You Sell It? | Sonia Marsh 7 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
August 23, 2013 11 AM PDT 12 PM MDT 1 PM CDT 2 PM EDT Member Teleseminar We are pleased to present Sonia Marsh, author of From Freeways to Flipflops, a prize-winning memoir. Sonia is a DIY ...
Embracing Your Blush as a Writer: Seven Ways to Move from the Particular to the Universal in Your Memoir 6 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
Writing Across the Divide of Difference By Shirley Hershey Showalter Are you interested in a story about: Childhood On a Pennsylvania dairy farm In the 1950’s and 1960’s In a Mennonite ...
The Ethics of Truth in Writing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Betsy Graziani Fasbinder 25 Jul 2013 | 07:46 am
As a reader and writer of both fiction and memoir, I find that a common denominator for what makes a story good and one that I want to read is what I call “essential truth.” Essential truth is ...
How to Write a Memoir about a Subculture that Connect with the Mainstream Culture | Free Roundtable August 8, 2013 – 4 PM 17 Jul 2013 | 07:31 pm
August 8, 2013 Free Roundtable Discussion 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT How to Write a Memoir about a Subculture that Connect with the Mainstream Culture Shirley Showalter This presen...
How to Ethically Use Fiction in Your Memoir and Truth in Your Fiction 3 Jul 2013 | 06:02 pm
The common denominator in both fiction and memoir is writing “essential truth”: constructing your story’s plot and emotional current so readers experience the essential emotional truth of the story...
National Association of Memoir Writers Summer 2013 Healing/Spiritual Memoir Workshop 13 Jun 2013 | 10:08 pm
Workshop leader: Linda Joy Myers, author of The Power of Memoir June 20-August 8 Thursdays 3-4 PM Write raw, write bold. Tell secrets on the page, make lists, tune into your muse. All this is wha...
National Association of Memoir Writers Summer 2013 Healing/Spiritual Memoir Workshop 13 Jun 2013 | 10:08 pm
Workshop leader: Linda Joy Myers, author of The Power of Memoir June 20-August 8 Thursdays 3-4 PM Write raw, write bold. Tell secrets on the page, make lists, tune into your muse. All this is ...
