Make Your Mess Your Memoir

By Anna David

We've all made a mess. And that means we all have a message.
This is the book that shows you how to take the former and make it into the latter.

When Anna David got sober and sold a book about her recovery to the biggest publisher in the world, she thought she'd made it. She was wrong.
Still, after years of struggle and self-discovery, she ended up thriving personally and professionally. Now she's sharing what she's learned-and showing others how to do the same.
In this page-turning and useful memoir-meets-manual, David reveals her personal lows (doing cocaine by herself while contemplating suicide), her career lows (a past-his-prime celebrity hurling a phone at her as she wrote his biography) and how her life today wouldn't be possible without those experiences.
The last quarter of the book is a practical guide so that readers can make their own mess into a message-and memoir.

Additional Information

In this completely comprehensive "biz-oir" packed with proven and authentic tools and techniques, memoirists-in-the-making will travel with David on her journey from struggling addict to New York Times bestselling writer/entrepreneur and also learn:

- How to determine a memoir message and "why"
- How to select scenes
- The advantages and disadvantages of traditional and self-publishing
- How to come up with a title, rewrite a book and hire editors
- Potential legal concerns and how to avoid them
- How to gather blurbs, write acknowledgments and arrange for a foreword
- How to be set up for success on Amazon
- The importance of an Advanced Reader Team

And much more.