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NAMW Member Teleseminar February 22, 2013 |The Ghost in the Memoir

Kim Pearson

  11 AM PST   12 PM MST    1 PM CST   2 PM EST Please join us for this informative teleseminar on ghost writing. Whether you want a ghostwriter for your memoir, or want to learn to ghostwrite for others, you will find useful information in this presentation by ghostwriting expert, Kim Pearson. Read what Kim has to say about this teleseminar.     It’s the nature of memoir to be full of ghosts from the past. But this discussion is about a ghost in the present. Ghostwriter, that … [Read more...]

Interview with Victoria Costello about Mental Illness, A Lethal Inheritance and Memoir Writing

1.      In your book A Lethal Inheritance, you weave science and research in with your personal story. What were the special challenges of interweaving science with your memoir—and was it emotionally wearing to use your own family as a case study? Even after I started putting the personal and the scientific pieces of this story together, I didn’t initially have the intention of going back three generations and looking deeply into my family mental health history. In fact, I resisted it. … [Read more...]

National Association of Memoir Writers Book Review: Fearless Confessions, by Sue William Silverman

Sue William Silverman

February Featured Book Review by Linda Joy Myers  President, National Association of Memoir Writers Sue Silverman is the NAMW Member-only Teleseminar presenter for February!  Be sure to join us on this call, Friday February 19, 2010. Sue Silverman sent me her book Fearless Confessions, after we “met” on a phone call. Chatting quickly back and forth, we discovered that we are both passionate about the subject of memoir writing, especially writing the deep truths that are part of a … [Read more...]

NAMW Book Review: Lit, a Memoir by Mary Karr

Lit Book Cover Mary Karr

November Featured Book Review by Linda Joy Myers, NAMW President  Lit, the new memoir by Mary Karr, is a book to be inhaled and imbibed, a fitting fate for a story about falling down a bottle and the slippery climb back up to some version of sanity and grace. Read the book all at once to feel its full impact, as you encounter the older, yet not wiser, Mary, moving on from the frightened, brassy, and lost girl in Liar’s Club and Cherry. In Lit, we pick up where Cherry left off, in her … [Read more...]