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If you’re an aspiring non-celeb memoirist, you already know the hard truth: landing a traditional publishing deal is extraordinarily difficult. Want to boost your odds? The “Memoir Plus” (or hybrid memoir) model places your personal story inside a bigger cultural, social, or generational narrative, where publishers are already paying attention.   As memoir expert Allison K. Williams explained in a recent webinar hosted by Jane Friedman , this approach can be especially effec

After Virginia Giuffre died by suicide, seven months before the October publication of her memoir Nobody's Girl,  her ghostwriter has emerged from the shadows to become the voice of the book.   Ghostwriter and journalist  Amy Wallace  had spent four years collaborating with Giuffre to produce the book, which details Giuffre’s horrific abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, and others. Now Wallace has shouldered the responsibility of ensuring that the worl

In the midst of this year’s Banned Book Week, I was surprised to learn that my favorite childhood book, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in ...