by Debi Lewis | Jul 19, 2024 | Blog
Your memoir is your memoir because of the way you make sense of what has occurred. This is why I suggest writing as far as you can on your own before inviting loved ones into your space. “Your job is not to get an agent or bestseller, It’s to outlast...
by Debi Lewis | Jun 23, 2024 | Blog
I’m happy to be able to share my latest article out now in the print version of Poets & Writers: Set Your Pitch Apart: Getting Indie Bookstores to Say Yes to Your Book Event. I got to talk with booksellers and event managers at Pagination Bookstore in St. Louis,...
by Debi Lewis | May 20, 2024 | Blog
I don’t like to think about the pandemic days very much; they were harrowing and left an indelible mark on most of us. But one of the only good things from that time for me was how I learned to reach out for connection in ways I hadn’t before, meet other writers, and...
by Debi Lewis | May 1, 2024 | Blog
Vivian Gornick on Let’s Talk Memoir! I am so pleased to announce that acclaimed memoirist, critic, and teacher Ms. Vivian Gornick is my guest on Let’s Talk Memoir. This was a dream come true. I first heard Ms. Gornick’s well-loved and oft-repeated advice: “In order...
by Debi Lewis | Apr 10, 2024 | Blog
Memoir resources and upcoming workshops I first came to memoir as a writer who knew very little about the genre but was beginning to sense that masking what I needed to express in fiction wasn’t going to cut it for much longer. What I experienced growing up seemed to...
by Debi Lewis | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog, Memoir Moments
About not knowing Are you the kind of writer that needs to know where your project is going in order to create? Then you’re my people. Most of my life I’ve tried to plan and control as much as I can to fend off uncertainty and doubt. And my writing life is no...
