Category: Writing Memoirs

  • Some Thoughts About Writing a Memoir

    Some Thoughts About Writing a Memoir

       In a memoir you want to write a story about a significant part of your life. It should engage your reader and convey something important that you have learned by living through a significant turning point. And then you need to stop.   It’s not an autobiography.    It’s a story, a gift to…

  • Take the Time to Write a Great Query Letter & Book Proposal

    Take the Time to Write a Great Query Letter &  Book Proposal

    An agent walking down 6th Avenue in New York, so the story goes, stops at a traffic light. While waiting for the light to change to WALK, she starts thumbing through the  unread emails on her phone. Her goal is to delete 100 query letters before the light changes. Your job:   write the one that…