Do you know your memoir’s message?

A memoir is telling a real story from your life, but it’s actually quite a bit more than that. Crafting a memoir that resonates requires more than recounting events—it demands a well-defined, powerful message that runs like a spine through

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Write for You, Publish for your Audience

There’s a lot of confusing advice for new writers floating around out there, and lately we’ve noticed that the advice centered around how writers should consider their audience can seem downright contradictory. In fact, if you google “Should you write

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6 Platform-Building Strategies for Nonfiction Authors

For spooky season, we’re tackling one of the most intimidating and crucial steps for nonfiction authors, especially authors who are looking to traditionally publish: building a visible platform to reach their target audience. Publishers often weigh an author’s platform equally

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Use Your Story to Change the World

Have you ever wondered how to take your big idea and make it into something that actually moves the world forward? In this week’s video, Amanda speaks with speaker coach Jess Sato about how you can take your ideas, your

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Memoir Mistakes that can Derail your Book

Writing any kind book can be a daunting task, but writing a memoir comes with its own set of specific hurdles that fiction, self-help, and academic writers don’t necessarily have face. In helping our coaching clients and Memoir Method group,

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How Professionals Beat Writer’s Block

We’re breaking into spooky October (my favorite time of year) with tackling one of writer’s scariest foes: writer’s block. Many authors struggle with this, but like many shadowy monsters, the idea of the beast is worse than the actual creature.

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How to Decide Where Your Memoir Ends

One of the common questions we get from our coaching clients and Memoir Method group is how to decide where your memoir ends. After all, in many ways, you’re still living the story. You’re not done learning yet, you have

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5 Common Memoir Mistakes

When starting any long project, we all dread thoughts of mistakes we might make. It is even enough to keep us from starting something for fear it might go wrong. No creative process is ever going to be perfect and

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