travel: memoir or non-fiction

Ruth2 · Jan 14, 2011

I'm a fiction writer but I'm also planning a travel memoir with regional music as the "bones" of the book and therein lies the rub. I'm doing the writing but a friend who lives in the country I'm focusing on is the "tour guide".

So -- how would this be marketed-- memoir or non-fiction?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

memoiries · Jan 17, 2011

Maybe narrative non-fiction.

Ruth2 · Jan 17, 2011

Thanks, memoiries!

jerrywaxler · Jan 17, 2011

It could be their memoir

If the book is written in first person as if it is told by the tour guide, then it would be a "memoir" of that person, "with" you as a co-writer. An interesting travel guide as a memoir is "A Course Called Ireland" by Tom Coyne. He walked around Ireland to all the golf courses. Is it a memoir? Is it a travel book? Neither. The book is shelved in the golf section.

Yours might be shelved in the music section, but you would be able to double-market it as a memoir.

Jerry

Ruth2 · Jan 17, 2011

Thanks, Jerry. It does sound similar to Tom Coyne's book, although I'd originally envisioned it as me playing Watson to my friend's Sherlock Holmes. It's still early days so that may change.

travel: memoir or non-fiction

Ruth2

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