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The Authors Publish Guide to Memoir Writing and Publishing by Emily Harstone

octavia_cade's review

informative fast-paced

2.0

Very short, somewhat superficial guide to writing a memoir. There's some very basic information here, suitable for the beginner writer, but a lot of what's here isn't specific to memoir at all. Information on how to research and approach an agent, for instance, is useful but not helpful, if that makes sense. I read this because I was interested in knowing more about writing memoirs, and I was hoping for rather more focused information. I feel a bit like a lot of this could have been cut and pasted from a book about writing non-memoir genres, it was so non-specific. The most interesting thing about it was the short list of recommended memoir reads. Using these to give examples of things like curation, for instance, would have provided concrete examples of how-to writing that might have made this book more appealing to me.