Write & Sell Your Memoir The Market for Memoirs Top literary agents get real about what you need to know to break in—and what you need to do to break out.
COMPILED BY JESSICA STRAWSER A Hook for Every Book Here's how to find the focus that can turn your own story into a marketable memoir.
BY PAULA BALZER Elements of an Effective Arc Build your story around this foolproof framework to keep your memoir afloat.
BY ADAIR LARA Full Disclosure If you're driven to tell your story, you may need to relive things you'd rather forget. Here's why it's important not to gloss over the tough stuff.
BY LAURIE ROSIN Not Just Your Story Chances are, you're not the only character in your book. Here's what every memoir writer needs to know about invasion of privacy, defamation and the law.
BY AMY COOK THE WD INTERVIEW: Yann Martel In
Life of Pi, Yann Martel all but reinvented storytelling. With a new novel on shelves and the whole world watching, can he do it again?
BY JESSICA STRAWSER In Her Blood After 20 years of publishing, Charlaine Harris wrote the book she'd always wanted to write—and hit a vein with readers everywhere. Here's the author behind "True Blood" on happy accidents, near misses and writing, above all, for fun.
BY ZACHARY PETIT Building a Gripping Story The winner of the WD Popular Fiction Awards assembled a powerful thriller—one piece at a time.
BY MELISSA HILL COLUMNS/DEPARTMENTS QUESTIONS & QUANDARIES:
Imminent Answers; Underage Writing; Letting Well Enough Alone BY BRIAN A. KLEMS ASK THE PRO: Cherry Weiner, Agent BY KARA GEBHART UHL
BREAKING IN: Debut Author Spotlight BY CHUCK SAMBUCHINO MFA INSIDER: Emerging as a Writer BY CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI YOUR STORY: A Working Professional BY MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEON STANDOUT MARKETS: Soho Press; Electric Literature BY VANESSA WIELAND CONFERENCE SCENE: Nonfiction Events BY LINDA FORMICHELLI WRITER'S WORKBOOK: Raising the Stakes Understanding the Key Types of Stakes BY DONALD MAASS Building Tension to Heighten the Stakes BY JESSICA PAGE MORRELL Upping the Ante: Three Strategies BY VICTORIA LYNN SCHMIDT INKWELL EDITED BY ZACHARY PETIT - Based on a True Story
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