Lisa Niver joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about disagreeing and then agreeing with your agent, her career in travel, accountability groups, working with developmental editors and book and proposal coaches, divorce, all the non-writerly jobs being a published memoirist requires, and her new book Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

Also in this episode:

-taking time to rest

-switching where our memoirs begin

-asking for help

Books mentioned in this episode:

Getting Stones with the Savages by Maarten Troost

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Super Survivors by David B, Feldman and  Lee Daniel Kravetz

Group by Christie Tate

BFF by Christie Tate

Maybe You Should Talk With Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.

On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times.

Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

Connect with Lisa:

Website: https://lisaniver.com/braveish/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisaniver

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lisaniver

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisaniver

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.niver

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/wesaidgotravel/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaellenniver/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisaNiver

We Said Go Travel: http://wesaidgotravel.com/

Lisa’s Series of articles:

1. Navigating Book Promotion: Expert Tips from PR Pros

https://www.wesaidgotravel.com/book-promotion/

1. Unlocking Book Promotion Success: Insider Strategies from PR Experts (Part 2)

https://www.wesaidgotravel.com/book-promotion-2/

1. Mastering Book Promotion Strategies: Proven Insights from PR Experts (Part 3)

https://www.wesaidgotravel.com/book-promotion-3/

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Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book.

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Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers