https://booksbywomen.org/why-the-term-misery-memoir-offends-me-by-natacha-tormey/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/why-the-term-misery-memoir-offends-me-by-natacha-tormey/#comment-47269 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:43:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14849#comment-47269 Yep. I completely relate to this Natacha. I have had a friend call my novel (that has roots in my own life) ‘misery fiction’. I’m waiting for this title to be bandied around even more post publication date. I’d bristled at the use and thought myself overly sensitive for doing so. But your article really articulates why this term is wrong, weak and adds nothing to the story being told.
Thanks for this. Will share on Facebook and Twitter.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-the-term-misery-memoir-offends-me-by-natacha-tormey/#comment-47151 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:58:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14849#comment-47151 Illness memoir. “I don’t do ‘illness memoirs’,” the second agent I queried said. No, the book wasn’t about cancer. It was about what I did to get my life back after my daughter died of cancer. We all need books to help us be bigger than our miseries. Clueless agents. Yes, people buy books for this.

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