Memoir novels….the truth about getting an agent & publisher

You'll save yourself a lot of stress if you write it first. Even experienced writers sometimes get stuck and horrified at how fast deadlines are approaching. There are many reasons for writing this story besides getting it commercially published, such as self-satisfaction, things you'll learn about yourself, about writing, about other people and about this disease by writing about it. At the very least, you'll have a story to share with friends and future generations of your family. So, don't be afraid to write without a contract.

Don't be afraid to write without knowing whether it will ever be published. Just do it. Write it. Face the future bravely and trust that the same sort of miracle that kept you alive will get the manuscript in the right hands when the time is right.

I too suggest you write the book, then seek publishers. If you've never written a book before, people will have all manner of questions: How will it end? Can she finish it?

Those questions are all answered with a complete work. And that's how I wrote Look Me in the Eye.

My next book is sold on the basis of a proposal, but for the second book the questions about what I could do had already been answered.

I was writing a book for 20 years, never wrote a word, people stopped believing that I would ever do it, then I did it, it was a hell of a lot easier to talk about it for 20 years than it was to sit at a keyboard for 10 hours a day for 6 months and write the damn thing. These posts above me are dead on, write it then worry about publishing it, BUT by all means I encourage you to write it, whether it gets picked up or not is regardless, you'll have created something about yourself or your incredible story that will live forever...