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Read Your Memoirs straight through or dip into it for help and inspiration with any phase of writing and reproducing your memoirs. It is designed to be a constant companion for memoirs writers and personal-historian co-authors.
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Clicking on the links will take you to these books at amazon.com:
Novel about a couple who must choose the gender of their newborn baby (and who are surprised by what they discover about their own sexuality); click here: Secret Choices
Secret Choices is a book for anyone who has had, will have, or wonders about having children.... In this page turner, the author skillfully builds a relationship between the reader and Seth and Dinah, who give birth to a child of questionable sexual identity. As if the conflict that tears at all the imaginable — and not predictable — considerations of how to raise this child (boy or girl) are not enough, the established medical community has ideas of its own. Secret Choices is, at once, an accurate insight into how we become boys or girls or both, and an intriguing novel filled with the value of family. A touching and startling love story runs parallel to the main plot. Reading Secret Choices was an emotional (laughing, crying, infuriating) experience. I recommend it highly.
— Actor Martin Clark, who is considering making a movie from this novel Comprehensive guide to writing a memoir yourself or with a co-author; click here: Y O U R M E M O I R S: Saving the Stories of Your Life and Work![]()
To those aspiring authors still slogging through that first draft, I recommend you put your manuscript aside and read Your Memoirs. Professional memoirists, you might consider a quick refresher read of Your Memoirs before you begin a project. [In fact,] if you write in this genre, you’ll want to keep Your Memoirs close by. Fortunately the binding is strong; it can withstand a lot of handling.
— Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett, Women's Memoirs website
"Hawley Roddick's writing is clean and funny, accessible but not patronizing. Respecting each memoir writer's viewpoint and focus, she suggests various techniques for searching sources, stimulating memory, choosing details, outlining, organizing, writing. Roddick makes it all sound challenging but fun."— Deborah O'Keefe, author of Readers in Wonderland
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