Your life is a book : how to craft & publish your memoir / Brenda Peterson and Sarah Jane Freymann.

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    • Abstract:
      Summary: "Guides budding writers though the transformative process of memoir writing to publication. In addition to exploring the unique elements of crafting a memoir ... [this book] also focuses on the self-exploration, awareness, and understanding that this emotional literary project triggers."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Content Notes:
      Part 1: crafting your memoir -- Start anywhere -- Follow the thread -- Your world as a writer -- Field notes on your life -- Showing up: creating a character of the self -- Where am I?: a sense of place and time -- Eat, pray, love -- Travel memoirs: journeys in and out -- The music of memoir: finding your own voice -- My family and other animals -- Spiritual memoirs -- The truth, the truth, and nothing but? -- "Foodoirs" and feeding the hungry writer -- Your legacy -- Part 2: getting serious about publishing -- Better blogging -- Agents -- Editors -- Book critics -- Memoirists -- Handling rejection -- Indie publishing -- Epilogue: your stories will change you.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references.
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    • ISBN:
      9781570619304 (pbk.) :
    • Accession Number:
      2014021812
    • Accession Number:
      869262318
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.946241