Book Publishing and Marketing: An 83 Year Old Changes with the Times

by Matilda ButlerMay 1, 2012
Book Publishing and Marketing: An 83 Year Old Changes with the Times

Access new challenges and see what is right for you.

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News: Do You Know About World Book Night?

by Matilda ButlerApril 29, 2012
News: Do You Know About World Book Night?

Lanie Tankard shares her experiences giving away books for World Book Night. Consider signing up next year.

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Memoir Contest Winner: The Runt of the Litter by Sara Etgen-Baker

by Matilda ButlerApril 26, 2012
Memoir Contest Winner: The Runt of the Litter by Sara Etgen-Baker

Women’s Memoirs is pleased to publish Sara Etgen-Baker’s award-winning memoir vignette about her much-loved dog and the life lessons she learned through him.

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Memoir Writing Tip: Don’t Workout, Train

by Matilda ButlerApril 25, 2012
Memoir Writing Tip: Don’t Workout, Train

Post #40 – Memoir and Fiction, Writing Alchemy – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Memoir Writing as Exercise
Have your seen the advice to “Train, Don’t Workout?” It is making the rounds on various exercise websites. Most of the time the author means this literally. But since I view the world through memoir-tinted glasses, I quickly saw [...]

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5 Memoir Writing Tips: Dialogue and Listening

by Matilda ButlerApril 24, 2012
5 Memoir Writing Tips: Dialogue and Listening

These 5 memoir writing tips will help you better under how you use conversation so that you can write better dialogue.

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Memoir Writing Tip: Recall and Accuracy

by Matilda ButlerApril 23, 2012
Memoir Writing Tip: Recall and Accuracy

Memoir and memory. Women’s Memoirs examines some of the ways that memory as used by memoir writers differs from memory used in other ways.

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Journaling for Memoir: You Are a Character, Too

by Amber Lea StarfireApril 14, 2012

Post #55
Memoir Writing, Journaling
by Amber Lea Starfire
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I remember the first time I thought of myself as a character in my memoir. I was listening to a teacher in my MFA program describe how hard it had been to create his own character on the page. The idea of myself as character came as revelation. [...]

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