This episode is for the writer who is afraid that no one will buy their book. You want people to read, buy, and share your book, but you don’t actually believe that it will happen. Breaking into the publishing world feels so out of reach that you’re paralyzed with the prospect of building an author platform and that fear that no one will buy your book is loud. I’m here in this episode to disrupt that internal narrative you have playing right now, because the truth is that you have readers waiting for you. You just have to start the conversation already! Let’s get started.

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This episode is part of a series where I take already published memoir and break down what works and why (and what doesn’t work and why). I’ve found that when I’m teaching my Memoir Method concepts to my writers, they benefit from seeing how these principles play out in memoir that you can find at the bookstore. This month I’m looking at the memoir Sociopath by Patric Gagne. You can find part 1 of this month’s breakdown back in episode 83.

Sociopath by Patric Gagne.

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This episode is for the writer who still calls themselves aspiring. I'm going to get a little salty in this episode because the truth is that that single word is cannibalizing your author career. Spoiler alert, if you think about yourself as an aspiring writer, it will take you a hell of a lot longer to publish your book than you want. Let's talk about it.

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This episode is part of a series where I take already published memoir and break down what works and why (and what doesn’t work and why). I’ve found that when I’m teaching my Memoir Method concepts to my writers, they benefit from seeing how these principles play out in memoir that you can find at the bookstore. This month I’m looking at the memoir Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Sociopath by Patric Gagne.

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This episode is for the writer who can’t even imagine what publication will look like for them. You are so stuck in the weeds of writing and editing that even thinking about what happens after you finish your draft overwhelms you. I want this episode to be a gentle invitation for you to rethink how you feel about the publication process. Perhaps it’s not the work of writing and publishing that is overwhelming but the way you think about it. Let’s have this conversation, and see what comes up.

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This episode is for the writer who wants to better understand the publishing industry.

Pop culture has sold us a very shiny, very curated picture of the publishing industry—New York skyscrapers, champagne book launches, and the lucky author who got picked from the slush pile. But here’s the truth: publishing is an industry, and when you understand it for what it really is, you get to take back control over your own career as a memoir author. Today, I want to give you a crash course in how the publishing industry has evolved—and what that means for authors right now. The more informed you are as an author, the more power you have over your career, and my intention for this episode is for you to see that you actually do have all the control over your trajectory and career as a memoir author. Let’s get started.

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This episode is for the writer who has had to refine what they think memoir is. We’ve been sold a specific concept of memoir through publishing, and you’ve likely gone into the process with certain beliefs and ideas about the genre and the writing process. And then, to no one’s surprise, the experience of writing is so much different from what you had thought it would be. In today’s episode I’m going into four things that I had wrong about memoir and how reframing my beliefs about writing and the genre transformed both how I write and how I edit. Let’s go.

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This episode is for the writer who thinks (or used to think) that self-publishing is, for whatever reason, less than traditional publishing. When you think of self-published books you think of Comic Sans, cheesy covers, and awkward marketing. You’ve been taught to consider self-published as lower quality, that traditional publishing equates to “good writing.” In this episode I want to debunk the skepticism around self-publishing and invite you into a new way of seeing your memoir within the publishing landscape.

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This is a series where I take published memoir that you can find at any bookstore and run it through the perspectives and lenses and frameworks that I use with my writers to help you figure out what works in memoir and why it works or what doesn't work in memoir and why that might not work. Our first book, I'll be spending a couple episodes on this with you, is Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams. This is part 2.

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This episode is for the writer who keeps saying, I just need more time, or maybe I'm just not ready yet, or need to have one more round of edits. I'm going to say the thing that no one else is saying. I'm going to talk about what's really holding you back. Because your publishing fate is not with an agent. It's not with an editor. What happens to you as an author in the publishing industry is 100 percent in your control. Let's get into it.

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