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How to Write, Edit, and Publish Your Memoir: Advice from a Best-Selling Memoirist: With Tips from 6 More Memoirists
USA Today Bestselling Author For everyone who's ever wanted to write a memoir but is having trouble starting, finishing, or is stuck somewhere in between. Here's the place to get the answers to your questions (and to the questions you didn't know to ask) in one concise volume. Learn the ropes from a USA Today, Audible, and 5-time Wall Street Journal best-selling memoirist and get tips from 6 of her friends and colleagues. Jourdan’s trademark blend of wit and wisdom, humor and humanity have earned her high praise from Dolly Parton and Fannie Flagg, as well as major national newspapers, the New York Public Library, Elle, Family Circle Magazine, and put her work at the top of hundreds of lists of best books of the year and funniest books ever.PRAISE FOR CAROLYN JOURDAN'S BOOKS8-Time national bestselling author of Biography, Memoir, Wildlife, Medicine & Mystery#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men (2022).#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place (2017).#7 Audible Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat (2016).#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men (2015).USA Today Best Seller Out on a Limb (2017). A Best Kindle Book of 2014.#5 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men (2014).#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat (2013).#7 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place (2012).Heart in the Right Place chosen as first ever Book of the Month by Family Circle magazine. Awarded Readers Prize by Elle magazine. Featured selection of most major national book clubs. Best Book of the Year Literary Guild. Best Book Club Book of the Year American Booksellers Association. Great Books About Extraordinary People Great Books, Great Libraries. Great Read Great Readers Advisory. Chosen by 100s of library-based book clubs, 100s of faith-based book clubs Christian, Muslim, and Jewish, as well as countless private book clubs.
161 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 8, 2018
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Carolyn Jourdan
24 books171 followersUSA Today,Top-10 Audible & 6-time Top-10 Wall Street Journal best selling Author of Memoir, Biography, Wildlife, and Mystery
USA Today Best Seller Out on a Limb was also voted a Best Kindle Book of 2014.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2022.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place in 2017.
#7 NYT-Audible Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat in 2016.
#6 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2015.
#5 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2014.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat in 2013.
#7 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place in 2012.
Visit Carolyn online at her website, her personal Facebook page, her Facebook Author page, her Twitter page, or her Instagram page.
Jourdan's newest books are Dangerous Beauty: Stories from the Wilds of Yellowstone and Waltzing with Wildlife: 10 Things NOT to do in Our National Parks.
Other recent works are Nurses: The Art of Caring, Radiologists at Work: Saving Lives With the Lights Off, and Talking to Skeletons: Behind the Scenes With a Radiologist.
The nurse book is a collection of the most memorable moments from the careers of over 60 nurses. It covers nearly 70 years of practice from World War II to the present day.
The extraordinary situations described here are the result of more than 1,000 years of hands-on bedside knowledge. The vignettes contain wisdom and insight gained the hard way, from long experience in the trenches (sometimes in actual trenches) performing tasks that range from the most humble to the most skilled.
The radiology books form a set of companion books, one dealing with the most memorable moments of 40 radiologists and the other chronicling 7 extraordinary nights spent shadowing a single radiologist.
Bear in the Back Seat - Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a series of true stories from “[a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves, and nine million tourists, some of whom are clueless."
In Kim DeLozier’s world, when sedated wild black bears wake up unexpectedly in the back seat of a helicopter in mid-flight, or in his car as he’s driving down the highway, or in his office while he’s talking on the phone, it’s just another day in the park.
In Out on a Limb Phoebe McFarland has just moved back to her hometown of White Oak, Tennessee, a sleepy rural community nestled in the mist-shrouded ridges and isolated hollows of the Smoky Mountains.
Now she spends her days working as a rural home health care nurse, making calls on a quirky roster of housebound characters she’s determined to take care of whether they cooperate or not.
She applies this same optimism to her love life, despite the fact that she’s been dating for 38 years without locating any husband material. When she runs into her childhood sweetheart, Henry Matthews, a wildlife ranger for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks like she might’ve found her man.
But Phoebe and Henry’s chance for romance has to be put on hold while they undertake a desperate search for a young woman who mysteriously vanished from the park during a gathering of world famous biologists and botanists, including a charismatic Frog Whisperer.
Medicine Men
USA Today Best Seller Out on a Limb was also voted a Best Kindle Book of 2014.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2022.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place in 2017.
#7 NYT-Audible Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat in 2016.
#6 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2015.
#5 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Medicine Men in 2014.
#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Bear in the Back Seat in 2013.
#7 Wall Street Journal Best Seller Heart in the Right Place in 2012.
Visit Carolyn online at her website, her personal Facebook page, her Facebook Author page, her Twitter page, or her Instagram page.
Jourdan's newest books are Dangerous Beauty: Stories from the Wilds of Yellowstone and Waltzing with Wildlife: 10 Things NOT to do in Our National Parks.
Other recent works are Nurses: The Art of Caring, Radiologists at Work: Saving Lives With the Lights Off, and Talking to Skeletons: Behind the Scenes With a Radiologist.
The nurse book is a collection of the most memorable moments from the careers of over 60 nurses. It covers nearly 70 years of practice from World War II to the present day.
The extraordinary situations described here are the result of more than 1,000 years of hands-on bedside knowledge. The vignettes contain wisdom and insight gained the hard way, from long experience in the trenches (sometimes in actual trenches) performing tasks that range from the most humble to the most skilled.
The radiology books form a set of companion books, one dealing with the most memorable moments of 40 radiologists and the other chronicling 7 extraordinary nights spent shadowing a single radiologist.
Bear in the Back Seat - Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a series of true stories from “[a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves, and nine million tourists, some of whom are clueless."
In Kim DeLozier’s world, when sedated wild black bears wake up unexpectedly in the back seat of a helicopter in mid-flight, or in his car as he’s driving down the highway, or in his office while he’s talking on the phone, it’s just another day in the park.
In Out on a Limb Phoebe McFarland has just moved back to her hometown of White Oak, Tennessee, a sleepy rural community nestled in the mist-shrouded ridges and isolated hollows of the Smoky Mountains.
Now she spends her days working as a rural home health care nurse, making calls on a quirky roster of housebound characters she’s determined to take care of whether they cooperate or not.
She applies this same optimism to her love life, despite the fact that she’s been dating for 38 years without locating any husband material. When she runs into her childhood sweetheart, Henry Matthews, a wildlife ranger for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks like she might’ve found her man.
But Phoebe and Henry’s chance for romance has to be put on hold while they undertake a desperate search for a young woman who mysteriously vanished from the park during a gathering of world famous biologists and botanists, including a charismatic Frog Whisperer.
Medicine Men
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April 15, 2019
I created an online class on art and creative writing on writing a piece of your biography, and transforming it into a fairytale.
First book I bought for research was Carolyn’s book! It’s perfect for helping folks write, start writing, keep writing and studded with pearls of wisdom and funny stories I highly recommend!!!!
First book I bought for research was Carolyn’s book! It’s perfect for helping folks write, start writing, keep writing and studded with pearls of wisdom and funny stories I highly recommend!!!!
October 8, 2022
I made a quick pass throught this book when I first purchased it in 2018, have now finally completed a more careful read from cover to cover. What took me so long? Since I own it I didn’t have a due date. As a sometimes memoir writer who gets sidetracked (mostly by my to-be-reads) for long periods, library due dates tend to drive my life.
I find this book highly motivational. I want to give my family my story (not sell a book) and share my values and beliefs. I’ve read a number of books on writing, including memoir. Each has offered some helpful takeaways. This one has better helped me understand that even a book not hopeful of or intended for publication must have a flow that holds the reader’s attention.The author is a friend. If I couldn’t give a positive, honest review, I wouldn’t post a review at all, so you can truest that this is an honest and deserved rating.
I find this book highly motivational. I want to give my family my story (not sell a book) and share my values and beliefs. I’ve read a number of books on writing, including memoir. Each has offered some helpful takeaways. This one has better helped me understand that even a book not hopeful of or intended for publication must have a flow that holds the reader’s attention.The author is a friend. If I couldn’t give a positive, honest review, I wouldn’t post a review at all, so you can truest that this is an honest and deserved rating.
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