Post #15 – Women’s Memoirs, Conversations – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Our Memoir Moment series has been a real hit. Kendra and I get a lot of comments on the usefulness of the advice, lately focused on writing an opening for your memoir, from the authors we interview.
We keep those interviews short, always centered on a single topic. But it is hard to not go into more depth and that got us thinking. We decided it was time to launch a second series, this one called Women’s Memoir Author Conversations. We invite your questions and pose them in a teleseminar format.
Recently, author Susan Tweit spoke with us for almost an hour about her just published memoir, Walking Nature Home: A Life’s Journey. In the interview you can hear below, she answers your questions plus several more that we asked. She is incredibly open about the process of writing this book, a process that extended over a 25 year period. She provides tips on how to develop a title for your memoir, comments on her writing life, discusses how she put together her book blog tour, talks about the role of agents and publishers, and much more.
With our special thanks to Susan, here’s her interview:
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If you want to follow Susan,
her website is: susanjtweit.com
and her blog is: susanjtweit.typepad.com/walkingnaturehome
