Free Roundtable Event April 5, 2012 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Learn from these creative and courageous women about the choices they made to publish their memoirs. Jonna self-published on Kindle, and Denise spent many years looking to be traditionally published. They will talk about why they made these choices and discuss the pros and cons of each method. Presentation points: Fear of telling the truth, and how that affects the publishing journey Seeking an agent and/or … [Read more...]
February 24 Memoir Teleseminar--Learn about Social Media from Beth Barany 11 AM PST; 12 MST; 1 CST; 2 EST __________________________________________________________ Write a good book, we're told. Yes, absolutely! And now it's time to tell others who don't yet know about you about your book. That's marketing. Yes, even unpublished authors can and need to start marketing for a successful career now. Yes, starting now. But where do we begin? Many authors think all you need to do is get … [Read more...]
Member Teleseminar January 27th 2012, 11 AM PST Memoir and Fiction—Genre Bending—Will the Memoir Police Arrest You? There have been so many debates about “the rules” of memoir—with a strict notion that everything must be accurate and provable, especially since the fracas with James Frey and Oprah—though all has been forgiven by now. Yet the debate continues, with some memoir writers insisting that they ARE being completely accurate—to THEIR memory of what happened and how … [Read more...]
We have declared 2012 The Year of the Memoir, and in our first event of the year, we’re going to plant seeds to help you envision yourself as a successful published author and take steps to build your audience—your platform—as it’s called by agents and publishers. Our Roundtable Discussion leader this month is Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days. Teresa will talk with us about ways to create success in your writing … [Read more...]
Spiritual Autobiography and Healing Memoir Workshops led by Linda Joy Myers, President of National Association of Memoir Writers. New Memoir Workshops starting in March and April! You may not see your memoir as healing or spiritual, but these terms refer to the amazing process that all memoir writers go through when writing and reflecting on their lives. It does not have to mean a terrible childhood or any particular trauma, though these aspects of life touch many of us in some … [Read more...]
We have been ringing bells all week at NAMW celebrating the fabulous response to our Telesummit last week! People from all over the world signed up to join us or have access to the amazing conference that featured Dinty W. Moore, Jennifer Lauck, Robin Hemley, Elisabeth Eaves, Anna Mitchael, Nicole Johns, and Penny Sansevieri. I captured a few ideas and quotes about the day to share with you. Remember, you can still sign up for the Telesummit and receive the audio downloads. Dinty: … [Read more...]
Everyone is invited to join Denis LeDoux & Nina Amir at this FREE Memoir Writing Tele-conversation To celebrate National LifeWriting Month and Write Nonfiction in November, a parallel to the National Novel Writing Month event that draws writers from all over the world, we want to bring our own experts to NAMW to talk about how to write quickly, freely, and A LOT to celebrate our lifestories, memoirs, and nonfiction. We are pleased to have Nina and Denis talk with us … [Read more...]
Penny to teach about Fans, Followers and Friends - How to Maximize and Monetize Social Media 6:00 PM EDT |5:00 PM CDT |4:00 PM MDT| 3:00 PM PDT Learn More About this FREE Day-long Event or Sign-up Now to receive full details via email! Memoir writing requires more than writing skills. To become a successful author, you need to understand how the media works and what you need to do yourself—no matter who your publisher is. You may be already online and … [Read more...]
Group of Talented Young Memoirists Talk About Truth 4:45 PM EDT |3:45 PM CDT |2:45 PM MDT| 1:45 PM PDT Learn More About this FREE Day-long Event or Sign-up Now to receive full details via email! Our wonderful panel of young memoirists—defined as under 40 years old—have blazed a trail with work that runs the gamut from frank discussions of sexuality, stripping and the hunger for travel by Elisabeth Eaves in Bare: the Truth about Stripping and Wanderlust to a … [Read more...]
Robin will speak about The Trouble with Truth 3:30 PM EDT | 2:30 PM CDT |1:30 PM MDT| 12:30 PM PDT Learn More About this FREE Day-long Event or Sign-up Now to receive full details via email! Any time we set down to write the truth of our lives we have to face the fact that there is no single truth to our lives. To make matters more complex we’re different people at different times in our lives and we show different faces to different people. … [Read more...]
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