I know its all about the writing, unless you are a celebrity, and I can't edit my life, but memoirs seem so popular and yet so difficult to land. Are certain topics more popular? Certain experiences?
I know its all about the writing, unless you are a celebrity, and I can't edit my life, but memoirs seem so popular and yet so difficult to land. Are certain topics more popular? Certain experiences?
I know its all about the writing, unless you are a celebrity, and I can't edit my life, but memoirs seem so popular and yet so difficult to land. Are certain topics more popular? Certain experiences?
Just my impression: seems like abuse/dysfunction/bad luck stories that get picked up are written with a lot of dark humor where the writer is simply wickedly funny.
Not really.
There are some which are written that way, but many aren't. Mainly because most people don't find abuse funny.
I'm seeing a number of agents who say on their websites no abuse memoirs. Mine isn't about abuse, so it doesn't affect me, but it does make me wonder about such categorical trends. I see plenty of memoirs in bookstores in which nothing much happens either than "growing up in the 70s," or something like that.
Mine is about living in Canada's wilderness, and I found an agent for it very fast. Still haven't got a publisher, but only two rejections so far - it's not "adventurous" enough (I refuse to feed the myth that living in the bush is terribly dangerous and that bears are out to get you).