December 12
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity, and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. – Somerset Maugham
Author, Editor of Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity, and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. – Somerset Maugham
The memoir writing lesson of 2017 leaps out at us from Annie Proulx’s acceptance speech given last week (mid-November) at the National Book Awards ceremony. Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News, and Barkskins, among other books) was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American …
Memoir continues as a hot seller for the main body of book buyers in America: women. For the first six months of 2017, BookScan reported sales growth in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir—up 8% over sales figures for the same period in 2016. This is good news …