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  • I'd love that thread! (and may still need to join the memoir writers group :). In the meantime my immediate answer is that I don't know that it's so much a question of...
  • Try again.  This time find a significant person, scene, happening in your own life,  non-fiction until you fictionallize it. Find a theme or meaning behind your seed o...
  • Fabulous, inspiring work by woman with a lot on their hands and even more on their minds! Congratulations, Diana and Debby. Diana, I love the connection you draw betwe...
  • I hadn't even considered the possibility that the publisher could be solely responsible for the product placement. That's just wicked and hope it's not the case. The idea of that bothers me more than the product placement. The idea that publishers could and would do that to an author's work. 
  • Sorry Liz if you feel that we are not responding. Personally, i don't think i have anything new to offer in terms of marketing tips. I also did what everybody was doin...
  • The possibility of paying to publish does democratize publishing. I remember meeting a Black Viet-nam War veteran who wrote a memoir of his experiences as a soldier in...
  • Good for you, Cathy! Memories + Possibility = priceless :)
  • Bella, your post is so inspiring! Thank you! All your points speak to me in a powerful way. How true it is that we tend to live our lives "small". When in fact, there...
  • A godmother, indeed, who opened my eyes to poetic possibility back in my college days. Hard not to be stopped by certain lines here. "I would call my friends on other...
  • I used to think I was the only one this had happened to but then I started to hear similar stories. You're always SO grateful to be invited that you don't even think of the possibility of them hating the book! It's actually funny. GREAT MATERIAL FOR FUTURE NOVEL!