Getting Naked in AZ, NM, TX & MN
Getting Naked for Money, a memoir about travel, is a great summer read — and my spokesdog, Madeleine, is very cute. Come see us on our first book tour!
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Edie Jarolim is a writer and editor living in Tucson, Arizona. Sign up on this blog to get updates about her humorous tell-all/memoir, GETTING NAKED FOR MONEY: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All.
What’s On Your Business Card? The 3 Faces of Edie
I contain multitudes. So said Walt Whitman. So showed one of my odder business cards. What can I say? It’s hard for me to pass up a good pun and the extremely talented Laura E. Kelley is my enabler, in this and other endeavors. The card it’s still more-or-less accurate in that it reflects the main divisions […]
Memoir March: An Essay and Book by Manfred Wolf
The last in the series of Memoir March reflections is a bit different: Author/essayist Manfred Wolf contemplates the questions of memoir writing in advance. Worrying runs in the family.
Memoir March: All Dogs Go to Kevin by Dr. Jessica Vogelsang
Outlining a narrative arc and creating composite characters helped make the memoir of veterinarian Jessica Vogelsang a success.
Memoir March: Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable by Liane Kupferberg Carter
How do you write an honest memoir without hurting members of your family? Liane Kupferberg Carter offers how she tackled the issue in Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable.
Audio Files from an Audiophile & the Tucson Festival of Books
A radio segment, a Tent Talk at the Tucson Festival of Books, and recording an audio book version of Getting Naked for Money. Read how they’re related.
Memoir March: The Spoon from Minkowitz by Judith Fein
Judith Fein’s memoir, The Spoon From Minkowitz, was missing a key element in the first draft. Here she tells us what it was–and how she resolved it.
Memoir March: To Drink from the Silver Cup by Anna Redsand
Author Anna Redsand discusses how she found a way to organize To Drink from the Silver Cup, a moving memoir about reconciling her faith with her sexuality.
Introduction: March Is for Memoir Writing
I’ve dedicated March to memoir-related posts because I’m going to be teaching a memoir-writing class, because I got memoirist friends to contribute great guest posts, and because I like alliteration.
For Pat Connors: Restaurateur, Patron of Arts & Pets, All Around Great Guy
Tucson is losing one of the great supporters of the arts and defender of the animals as well as an innovative restaurateur and all around great guy. Thanks for all you brought to so many, Pat Connors.
5 Tools to Track Your Writing Submissions
No matter what your writing genre, or how often you send out queries, it’s easy to lose track of submissions. Here are five apps and programs to help.
To Comp or Not to Comp, Part 3: Travel Pros Debate, PR Edition
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, travel editor/writer James Durston and I discuss the ethics of accepting free or deeply discounted travel. Are comps the price of doing business in a profession where the pay is low and travel pubs don’t foot the bill, or are they temptations no self-respecting writer should succumb to, no upstanding publication […]
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