Writing & Selling Your Memoir - Paula Balzer

Descriere Writing & Selling Your Memoir - Paula Balzer

\nThere's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.\n \nA memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often exceptionally difficult, time in someone's life. Writing & Selling Your Memoir talks readers through the process of telling their most personal stories in a compelling, relatable, and readable manner. Unlike other books dedicated to the art and craft of writing memoir, it teaches readers how to approach the genre with love, respect, and know-how without sentimentalizing it.\n \nDrawing on her experience working with New York Times best-selling memoirists, literary agent Paula Balzer carefully explores the genre and provides readers with step-by-step instruction on how to: \n \n- Identify strong opening and closing points \n- Find and develop a strong central hook that readers can relate to \n- Structure a memoir to maximize readability \n- Use dialogue and pacing to enhance intimacy \n- Approach honesty and truthfulness \n- Build a successful author platform around their memoir \n- Get an agent's attention \n- Get published \nFull of tips, techniques, detailed exercises, and examples from best-selling memoirs as well as sidebars from well-known memoir authors, Writing & Selling Your Memoir teaches you how to approach an often tricky genre and tell your story without sentimentalizing it.\n

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Penguin Publishing Group

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9781599631356

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