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From First Time Memoir Writer to Award Winning Author | Free Roundtable June 6, 2013

May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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We are pleased to have as our guest a non-native English speaker and writer who began writing a memoir with the burning desire to write his story. With the help of coaching, networking, and a lot of hard work, his book Lost Decency just became a finalist in the the prestigious Ben Franklin Awards competition for independently published books.   Atta Arghandiwal, Roundtable Speaker From the terrifying moments of leaving my homeland after the Russian invasion in August of 1980, I had … [Read more...]

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From Blah to Brilliant: How to Write Compelling Description | Memoir Member Teleseminar

May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

  May 24, 2013 11 AM PDT   12 PM MDT 1 PM CDT  2 PM EDT    Sharon Lippincott, our May Member Teleseminar presenter, will illuminate  us with tips about how to write great and compelling descriptions--a skill that makes our writing shine. Please join us! Have you ever felt like your writing is a little flat and drab and not known how to fix it? You might have tried amping up adjectives and slipping in similes, but even that wasn’t enough. Don’t be discouraged. This … [Read more...]

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What if You Weren’t There? | Memoir Writing in Absentia–Free Roundtable with Judy Mandel

April 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
Judy Mandel

May 9  / Free Memoir Roundtable Discussion  4 PM PDT   5 PM MDT  6 PM CDT  7 PM EDT For a large part of the story of Replacement Child, I was not present, or even alive yet. A crucial portion of the story, including the plane crash that took my sister’s life, happened two years before I was born. This posed an immediate problem for me as I began to write, as I know it does for other memoir writers who struggle with how to convey parts of their story that they did not witness or … [Read more...]

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Free Memoir Telesummit–Memoir in the New Millennium

March 28, 2013 By 7 Comments
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  May 3, 2013    10 AM-4 PM PDT An All Day Teleconference with Experts in Memoir, Marketing, and Publishing  Sign up to get your audio download for this free event. Memoirs are more popular today than ever—an evolving a grass roots movement where ordinary people, not just the rich and infamous, write and publish their stories. Memoirs are more popular now than fiction. Why? There seems to be a revolution in the personal story world, where thousands of people connect to the worlds … [Read more...]

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Do you Need an Editor for Your Memoir? The Answer is Yes, Yes, Yes!

March 26, 2013 By 6 Comments
david colin Carr

NAMW Member Teleseminar April 26 11 AM PDT  12 PM MDT  1 PM CDT  2 PM EDT   As I work with memoir writers, I am privileged to see two sides of them as writers—the part that is eager to write, loves the story, and can't wait to get their unique message out to the world. Then there's the other part—the one who does NOT want to be edited, feels violated by an editor taking a look at the "gold" there on the pages, and who would rather hike 10 miles in the snow than submit anything … [Read more...]

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

January 21, 2013 By 6 Comments
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...]

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Free Roundtable February 7, 2013 |Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing for Shy Writers

January 18, 2013 By 12 Comments
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    Free Roundtable Discussion--please sign up! 4 PM PST  5 PM MST  6 PM CST  7 PM EST   We are so pleased to have Beth Barany, author of Twitter for Authors, here to guide us into Twitter Land! Join us for the free discussion! Whether we like it or not, social media book marketing is key to building your author platform and to selling more books. For many authors, the idea of sharing themselves with the world through Twitter and other social media platforms can be … [Read more...]

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Magic Marketing for Memoir | It’s Never Too Late or Too Early to Do Right by Your Book | January 18, 2013

December 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
Carolyn Howard Johnson

Member Teleseminar January 18, 2013 11 AM PST 12 PM MST 1 PM CST 2 PM EST Carolyn Howard-Johnson       Too many memoirists and others who write in literary genres like poetry have come to believe that marketing or promotion won't work for them. Worse, that it can't be done. Worse still, that it is counter to their artistic intent. How do you feel about marketing? Does it make your heart beat harder? It's time to get in the flow of positive thinking about getting your … [Read more...]

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Endorsements: The Art of Gathering a Book Blurb | Stephanie Barko

November 19, 2012 By 4 Comments
stephanie Barko

  Skill Building for Memoir Authors: NAMW Member Teleseminar December 14, 2012 11 AM PST 12 PM MST  1 PM CST  2 PM EST For many authors, finding endorsers and writing the dreaded query letter can be daunting, but as independent authors and writers, it's a skill we need to have. It's not too soon to start building your list of potential endorsers. Join us at this workshop with publicist Stephanie Barko to learn more about how, when, and who to contact to get some major buzz going about … [Read more...]

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Memoir Writing: Capturing Your Moment in Time

October 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
Catherine Bramkamp

October NAMW Member Teleseminar October  26,  2012 11 AM PST 12 PM MST 1 PM CST 2 PM EST Catharine Bramkamp     "The whole world is a work of art [and] we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."  ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being Woolf wrote … [Read more...]

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