What is the cost to publish a Kindle Single?  Also, what might be a good Amazon format to publish an edited volume of previously published works? Finally, is SheWrites Press open to publishing collections of previously published works (edited,...

Good succinct explanation!

My tendency is to put forth the face I want people to see: Sharpwitted, together brainiac. Or soemthing like that! It's partly my journalism training -- I try to be fact-based even when I have an opinion.  However, whenever I write from the heart...

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Wow, this is some of the most succinct and powerful advice I've heard about memoir.  I do find it hard to think about making it "all about me" and being vulnerable and exposed when I contemplate my memoir...I'm sure that's one of the things that's...

I'm a bit late to this party but Brooke, your blog post and all your comments ring inutitively true. I've been struggling with what I think may be a misery memoir for a while so this advice is welcome! I wanted to add that Joan Didion's "The Year of...

This is fantastic advice that I will surely use as I hone my own book proposal. I think comparing a nonfiction work to fiction re: the story -- character, conflict, choices, and consequences -- is illuminating and something I can use not only with...

I just think the Passion Project is the best thing to come out for women and media in a while. And great choice-- I love work that spans the personal and the political, so to speak. Congratulations all, and I'll be following closely.

I come at this from a different angle as a ghostwriter -- collaboration is the name of my game! Except that the balance-of-power is a bit different. Ultimately the client has the final say on my work and suggestions, but oftentimes (since I tend to...