Pitching a COMEDIC Memoir about adolescence
I'm new here on the boards (which have been SO helpful and informative so far) and I figured I may get some feedback if I post directly on here.
I'm a twenty-year-old college student and I'm finally finishing my first completed work, which is a comedic memoir about growing up "different" in a Southern, suburban town. My working title is Diagnose Me, Please: My Life as a Teenage Trainwreck. At almost 70, 000 words, the book is comprised of crazy stories about trying to go to Hollywood, dealing with obnoxious school bullies, getting kicked out of school, and infiltrating the Church of Scientology. So it's not your conventional, heartwarming biography.
Basically, I'm wondering if it's even possible to sell something like this. I feel like there could be a market for it, with the success of "dry humor" writers like David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler, but I'm not sure how to go about pitching it and who to pitch it to. I'm also unsure of the realities of getting published while still being in college at twenty years old. And, finally, I'd really like to know if my title sounds too "campy" to be taken seriously.
Any feedback would be just awesome!
I'm new here on the boards (which have been SO helpful and informative so far) and I figured I may get some feedback if I post directly on here.
I'm a twenty-year-old college student and I'm finally finishing my first completed work, which is a comedic memoir about growing up "different" in a Southern, suburban town. My working title is Diagnose Me, Please: My Life as a Teenage Trainwreck. At almost 70, 000 words, the book is comprised of crazy stories about trying to go to Hollywood, dealing with obnoxious school bullies, getting kicked out of school, and infiltrating the Church of Scientology. So it's not your conventional, heartwarming biography.
Basically, I'm wondering if it's even possible to sell something like this. I feel like there could be a market for it, with the success of "dry humor" writers like David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler, but I'm not sure how to go about pitching it and who to pitch it to. I'm also unsure of the realities of getting published while still being in college at twenty years old. And, finally, I'd really like to know if my title sounds too "campy" to be taken seriously.
Any feedback would be just awesome!