tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410616401062748816.post8662791512016197095..comments2023-11-03T04:49:04.527-07:00Comments on The Anti-Wife: Backspace ReportThe Anti-Wifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02027321787352577548noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410616401062748816.post-37608399037775027552007-06-07T11:06:00.000-07:002007-06-07T11:06:00.000-07:00Thanks for this report.Thanks for this report.Mindy Tarquinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02970872751327021013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410616401062748816.post-67166978973243625002007-06-04T10:24:00.000-07:002007-06-04T10:24:00.000-07:00Memoirs do get published. However, the writing ha...Memoirs do get published. However, the writing has to be exemplary and the story gripping. Also, the best memoirs don't show the person as a victim but as someone who faces adversity and succeeds against all odds. <BR/><BR/>Your friend might benefit from a critique group that could help her polish her story for publication and to catch the interest of agents. Or perhaps a professional editor.<BR/><BR/>Once her story is the best it can be, she should search for a literary agent who handles memoirs and knows which publishers to submit to so she can have someone to advocate for her.The Anti-Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027321787352577548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410616401062748816.post-60212622222926637812007-06-04T10:00:00.000-07:002007-06-04T10:00:00.000-07:00I am running into the same thing - I advocated for...I am running into the same thing - I advocated for a friend who has written a memoir with a publisher that I know well. My publisher friend tells me that she has made it clear to her writers for 20 years that she does not do memoirs as trade publications because they are rarely profitable. <BR/><BR/>This writer is severely disabled, was labeled mentally retarded and institutionalized as a young child, bounced around the foster system, then finally tested at age 29 and found that she was not mentally retarded. She started her education at that point and made it through a real high school diploma, got married... Her story is heartbreaking and hopeful, full of stories of abuse, neglect, misunderstanding, loneliness, romance, disappointment.<BR/><BR/>No go. Not profitable. We may apply for a grant through an advocacy agency, but she will probably just end up doing POD.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how many memoirs there are out there.<BR/><BR/>-Anonymous Sister of Anti-wifeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com