What Made Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club a New York Times Bestseller–Free Webinar
Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club is one of the classic memoirs that started the Memoir Revolution. This book is so engrossing that anyone who’s read it has the same reaction: I LOVED THAT BOOK! As a reader, you identify with her raucous, dangerous family. Karr’s honest...
Legal and Ethical Issues in Memoir Writing – Interview with Literary Attorney Robert Pimm
National Association of Memoir Writers Interview: Robert Pimm, Literary Attorney with Linda Joy Myers, President of NAMW _______________________________________________________________________ Linda Joy Myers: This is Linda Joy Myers and I’d like to welcome everyone...
Louise DeSalvo the Art of Slow Writing a Powerful Way to Heal and Reveal
It’s always exciting to talk with an author you’ve admired for many years. This week Louise DeSalvo, author of five memoirs, a scholarly book about Virginia Woolf, Writing as Way of Healing and several other books that explore the lives and works of literary giants...
How to Craft the Beginning of Your Story
As readers, we all have the experience of trying to find our bearings as we begin a story. To get “inside” the story that’s beginning, we readers are curious about who the main characters are, and we’re eager to learn about them—to learn why we are being told this...
