Questions for memoir authors

I need your help. On September 6, I’m moderating a panel of women memoir authors at the East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas, CA. Each woman has published at least one memoir and two have two published memoirs.  

We already have a few questions to pose to the panelists. I’ve listed them below. If any of the questions we’ve listed resonate with you, let us know. If they don’t, let us know that as well.

But most importantly, I’d like you to imagine yourself in the audience of that session. What questions would you ask if you were sitting in that room?

You can post your questions as a comment to this blog. Or, you can email me using the information in the Contact tab of this site.  I look forward to hearing from you. Your reward? More about that in a minute.

Our current list:

Q1. Why did you write your memoir, in other words, what was your motivation?

Q2. What was the most difficult part of the writing process and how did you overcome the problem or difficulty?

Q3. If your memoir required research, how did you go about finding the information you needed?

Q4. What audience were you writing for? Did you find that the people who read your memoir are primarily the same audience?

Q5. What advice would you give to someone just starting to write a memoir?

Q6. What did you learn about yourself in the process of writing your memoir?

Q7. Do you feel that you were changed by the process of writing your memoir?

Q8. What was the biggest surprise that happened in this process?

Your reward for sending us your questions? We’re going to tape the session and post it on this website. You get to hear your questions answered.

Thanks.  I look forward to hearing from you.