Today's episode features memoirist and novelist Debi Lewis, where we talk about her newly released memoir, Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive. We also chat about:
- why she wrote a memoir about her daughter’s struggles with eating
- the unique research she used to help draw an accurate roadmap not just for herself and her family but to share with other families
- important things you must consider when writing a memoir
- having good and bad in your villains
- the hardest part about writing a memoir
- her path to publication
- switching gears—and agents—for fiction
- the differences between submitting proposals and writing query letters and what to include in a query when you’ve already had rep/published a book
- her fiction series in progress
- the three questions that must be answered in a memoir proposal and tips for writing them
- recording your own audiobook
You can connect with Debi on Twitter @growthesunshine and on Instagram @growthesunshine. Her website is www.debilewis.com.
Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes, @_badasswriters, and @FoxxEditorial. On Instagram, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites, @badasswriters_podcast, and @FoxxEditorial. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxxwrites.com and www.foxxeditorial.com.
