The Aesthetic Memoir: Notes from a Nonfiction Editor

The Aesthetic Memoir: Notes from a Nonfiction Editor

Interested in knowing more about the collaborative relationship between writer and editor when working on literary memoir, I asked Jenny Lord, my editor and Publisher at W&N to tell me a little about her job and her role as editor of nonfiction titles and of...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing for Survival

The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing for Survival

This week I was interviewed by a journalist and asked about the process of writing Sins of My Father, and it gave me a chance to reflect on the journey of its evolution, when it started, how and what it then grew into and how in some ways it grew out of various stages...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Reflection

The Aesthetic Memoir: Reflection

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. The thing about being published in March, is that a lot of the build up happens say six months before publication – you have the publicity meeting; you write some pitches; the proof copies go out – and because this...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Capturing Emotion

The Aesthetic Memoir: Capturing Emotion

I imagine this will be the first in a couple of blog posts on this subject, and actually, just this week I was invited to speak to a group of screenwriters about writing from life, and was struck by the visual power of their articulated ldeas. They were all writing...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Beginnings

The Aesthetic Memoir: Beginnings

‘We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we’ve never been before. We meet where no one will recognise us. One of us flies, the other brings a car, and in it we set out for some destination. Increasingly, the places we go are unreal places: the...