The Memoir Revolution

Category: Author Interview

January 10, 2014

Interview with Memoir Author Sonia Marsh, Pt1

Author Interview, Sonia Marsh

Freeways to Flipflops, Gutsy Living, Gutsy Story, How-to, interview, memoir, Sonia Marsh

In addition to writing the memoir, Sonia is the mastermind behind the Gutsy Living contest which provides a platform for sharing the courageous, often outrageous acts of human experience. In this two-part interview, Sonia answers a few questions about writing her memoir and sharing her life experience with the world.

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Jerry Waxler
December 10, 2013

Interview with Editors of 60s Memoir Anthology

60’s, Author Interview

60’s, anthology, Boomers, Coming of age, feminism, interview, memoir

It was such a confusing and exhilarating era, a time of my young adulthood, a time of confusion yet opportunity. Everything I’d known and believed before was fractured. and out of the those pieces, along with my generation, I learned to find myself through art, through the new psychologies that were evolving at the time,…

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Jerry Waxler
November 7, 2013

Interview with Venerable Memoir Teacher, Denis Ledoux Pt2

Denis Ledoux, Memoirs

Denis Ledoux, How-to, memoir, thought-leadership, Writing

In my previous post, I ask Denis Ledoux questions about memoir writing and what it was like to have been a teacher so early, before the Memoir Revolution was even a glimmer on the horizon. In this post, I complete the interview, asking him questions about teaching teachers, about ethnic background in memoirs, and stories.

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Jerry Waxler
November 5, 2013

Interview with Venerable Memoir Teacher, Denis Ledoux Pt1

Denis Ledoux

Writers likely to succeed? A sense of drama helps a lot. I don’t mean that success-prone people are drama queens here but that they have a sense of timing and of leaving some details in and excising others. They have a deep sense of the rightness of telling the story. They enjoy the writing and…

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Jerry Waxler
April 26, 2013

Interview with Memoir Activist – Founder of National Association of Memoir Writers

Associations/Training, Author Interview

activist, association, interview, Linda Joy Myers, memoir, NAMW, Writers

As the leader of NAMW, you are in a sense the orchestra leader. But the analogy isn’t perfect. We are all out here writing on our own and only come together occasionally. How do you see yourself in relationship to this loose conglomeration of writers, teachers, and other participants? Help us understand the role you…

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Jerry Waxler
December 5, 2012

Interview: On Publishing the Memoir Breaking the Code

Karen Fisher Alaniz, Veteran

Alaniz, author, combat, Greatest Generation, interview, memoir, PTSD, Trauma, Veteran, WWII

When I do book events, there is definitely a good deal of teaching and encouraging others to write their own story. I’m passionate about that. We all think we’ll have more time to get our stories, or those of our loved ones, written down. But sadly, for some time runs out. My message is to…

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Jerry Waxler
November 30, 2012

Turning Dad’s WWII Secrets Into a Memoir, Pt 3

Karen Fisher Alaniz, Veteran

Alaniz, author, combat, Greatest Generation, interview, memoir, PTSD, Trauma, Veteran, WWII

I was also getting encouragement from my critique group. Some of the ladies were little girls during the WWII years and they were a good barometer for how important the information in the letters was. Like everything with this book, the structure developed naturally. Once I’d written maybe 30-pages, I knew it was reading like…

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Jerry Waxler
November 26, 2012

Birth of a Memoir: Turning Her Father’s Secrets Into a Story

Karen Fisher Alaniz, Veteran

Alaniz, author, combat, Greatest Generation, interview, memoir, PTSD, Trauma, Veteran, WWII

At this point, I wasn’t sure if this was a story I wanted to find a publisher for or if I wanted to simply write it and just have copies printed for my family. But I wasn’t thinking about that much. I just wanted to get it written down in the best form I could.

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Jerry Waxler
November 13, 2012

Memoir Interview: Breaking into Her Father’s Secrets Pt 1

Karen Fisher Alaniz, Veteran

Alaniz, author, combat, Greatest Generation, interview, memoir, PTSD, Trauma, Veteran, WWII

But once the memories came to the surface, there just wasn’t a way to turn back. Every time I wanted to stop, or my resolve was challenged, something would put me back on track again. Some little step forward would be taken, or a tiny beam of light would shine on a new area.

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Jerry Waxler
October 4, 2012

Jillian Bullock About Writing Her Long Journey to Adulthood

Author Interview, Coming of age

I thought it would be great to end the book at a point that gave me so much joy-my dream of working for the Wall Street Journal. It was a major accomplishment for a former drug-addicted, homeless prostitute. It was something no one thought I would ever be able to do, except for me. I…

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Jerry Waxler