My Interview with CNN.com
By Jerry D. Simmons | January 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment » (Click to add yours!)

Several months ago, a wonderful writer by the name of Todd Leopold from CNN.com called to ask questions about the past surge in memoirs, published both Independently and by the big houses. The article recently popped up somewhere on the web and I decided to mention it again, here is the link to the story.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/04/15/memoirs/index.html

The most important thing to remember about memoirs is that the writing must be a “recollection” of facts. You cannot fabricate people, places or things and call it a memoir. Memoirs are different from biographies or autobiographies since the facts are not “vetted” for the truth. Biographies and autobiographies are supposed to be scrutinized by their publisher to insure the writing is accurate and truthful.

If you are writing a memoir, keep in mind, it needs to be as factual as possible. Don’t make the mistake of creating people, places or things that never existed.

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One Response to “My Interview with CNN.com”

  1. Yukiko Starek says:
    February 1, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Thanks for this great post – I will be sure to check out your blog more often

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