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By Well+Good cofounder Melisse Gelula MAY 📖 The Mother Code by Ruthie Ackerman 🔗 Join the Substack + ZOOM with authors!
Congratulations, Maris!
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A win for the memoirists! I told myself that applying for grants etc was good practice for articulating what my project was + developing a thick skin. I was shocked to get a YES! Esp now w/all the senseless arts cuts. Books + writing saved me. They will save others. We have to protect them. 🙏
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Our May Book Club Pick!
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Hi writers + readers! Join us for a live Q&A w/ debut author Ruthie Ackerman 6/2 @ 6:30pm ET. You’re gonna hear about her new book “The Mother Code” EVERYWHERE. We’ll talk maternal ambivalence, the fertility wage gap + tons of memoir craft. 💰 It’s FREE for Memoiring Substack subscribers, also free!
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Memoir Writing Workshop at Type Books Toronto with Melisse Gelula and Alyssa Ages
How do turn yourself into a character? What form should your book take? Author Alyssa Ages and I are tackling these topics and more during our super cool IRL workshop at Type Books in Toronto! #memoir
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LIVE AUTHOR Q+A 💥 Join us! Our March Book Club Pick is Woman of Interest by Tracy O’Neill 4/2 @6:30pm ET on Zoom! After a private eye ghosts her, Korean-adoptee O’Neill leads a Sam Spade-like investigation into what happened to the mysterious biological mother she never met tinyurl.com/MarMemoiring
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Didn’t want you to miss this! Our February Book Club Pick is “The Leaving Season” (incredibly well-reviewed and ideal for Valentine Day skeptics). Subscribe to sign up for our free author event w/ @kellymcmasters.bsky.social
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Noooo!
11.02.2025 03:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have dream and it’s to make the memoir section closer to the high-traffic parts of the bookstore and not by the broom closet and dusty textbooks on the third floor, per Barnes & Noble Union Square. Who’s with me?
11.02.2025 03:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great advice! I loved the super specific examples. Definitely saving this one for a moment in my and my manuscript’s not too distant future
21.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazing, Michael!
21.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yesss, important timing indeed
19.01.2025 21:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh, thanks so much for sharing your work, James! There’s an anthology dropping in May by Michele Filgate called “What My Father and I Don’t Talk About.”Might be interesting to you!
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Hi! It’s Melisse of Memoiring, a #memoir book club w/free author Zooms. Excited to hype memoir + connect with readers + writers on #booksky!
Jan Pick: NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART by Sarah Labrie. Grab a copy + join us 1/29!
Love memoir? Do tell + I’ll follow!
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