In another major pre-Frankfurt Book Fair sale, Marysue Rucci at Simon & Schuster paid a rumored seven figures for a memoir by playwright Sarah Ruhl called 'Smile.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
In this post, Tanja Panjevic shares how to write a compelling memoir and stay sane in the process. In this post, she describes nine tips, including clarifying your scope, how to correct course as you go, and more. The post How to Write a Compelling Memoir (and Stay Sane in the Process) by Tanja... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-10-09 22:34:20 UTC ]
Virago has signed lawyer Justine Cowan’s mix of family memoir and history of the Foundling Hospital – including the story of her own mother who grew up in its care. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 19:52:13 UTC ]
Shauna M. Ahern, also known as Gluten-Free Girl, delivers a beautiful memoir about finding contentment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-08 17:13:08 UTC ]
Michael Joseph has landed the "mesmerising" and "electrifying" medical memoir by GP Tom Templeton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 09:53:57 UTC ]
If you wanted to see a lot of photos of Rihanna, you could follow @badgalriri on Instagram OR you could buy this 504-page “visual autobiography.” (Think Kim Kardashian’s Selfish but probably way better.) Rihanna is a 15-pound doorstopper that features 1,050 photographs of the singer, following... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-07 19:36:56 UTC ]
Granta Books has acquired a "moving and tender memoir", provisionally titled Let Us Speak of Okinawa, by Elizabeth Miki Brina. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-07 04:10:05 UTC ]
Viking will publish a companion journal to former US First Lady Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir Becoming later this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-06 15:05:01 UTC ]
'Hey Kiddo', Jarrett J. Kroscoczka’s bestselling gaphic memoir about familial dysfunction, won Book of the Year, while Fun Home author Alison Bechdel and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola were inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Harvey Awards ceremony, held Friday evening during New York Comic Con... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
LESLIE JAMISON IS NO STRANGER to tough questions. In fact, she’s undyingly attracted to them. Her three previous works — the novel The Gin Closet (2010), the essay collection The Empathy Exams (2014), and the memoir The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018) — all deal explicitly with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-03 12:30:39 UTC ]
Note: Masie Cochran is Jeannie Vanasco’s editor for her memoir Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl. “I’ll tell him: I still have nightmares about you,” Jeannie Vanasco writes early in her second memoir, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl. The “him” in question is Mark, a man... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-03 11:00:04 UTC ]
Did you know that there’s an entire genre of books dedicated to white people going to Nepal to find themselves? I didn’t either! But it’s not so surprising since the release of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love, and its 2010 film adaptation, which has caused an uptick in tourism to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-02 11:00:13 UTC ]
Louis Theroux's Gotta Get Theroux This (Macmillan) has toppled David Cameron's For the Record (William Collins) at the top of the Amazon Charts Most Sold: Non-Fiction chart, with the documentary maker's memoir notching up more listeners on Audible than readers on Kindle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 07:19:21 UTC ]
In her memoir “Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl,” Jeannie Vanasco seeks answers to her trauma. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-01 09:00:06 UTC ]
Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
Miller, known for years only as Emily Doe in the Stanford sexual assault case, has written a memoir that lays bare the complicated truths about survivorhood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-09-30 17:39:54 UTC ]
Sometimes an ad gets just a little too truthful for its own good. By the time this 1972 full-pager for Benson & Hedges 100’s ran in Life magazine, smoking was widely understood to be associated with a range of serious diseases. So, sure, let’s equate using our product to jumping out of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury has won a four-way bidding war to publish journalist Robyn Wilder’s “funny, frank and deeply moving” memoir, Reasons to be Fearful. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-27 07:15:43 UTC ]