How to Write a Memoir with Pamela Marin author of Motherland
Do you have a memoir brewing but need a little guidance to help get in on the page?
Join acclaimed author and memoirist Pamela Marin Saturday October 3rd from 10:30-12:30 to help you jumpstart your own memoir or get back to the project you’ve been trying to finish.
After a brief discussion of the differences between memoir and autobiography, we’ll work through a series of writing exercises to help focus and expand on the elements of your life story that will engage readers.
Pamela Marin was a staff writer for the Orange County Register, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Tribeca Trib. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Playboy, Redbook, Parents, AARP Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines. One of her essays caught the eye of a producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Pamela wrote and recorded a piece that was featured on the show in 2001. Her memoir, Motherland, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s best books of 2005. Her screenplay adaptation of the book Tommy’s Honour opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Feature Film.
Pamela’s memoir is in the Forbes library’s collection, and copies are available at Amazon and independent bookstores.
