(The Rules for Query Road) Some months have passed since I’ve shared information about my search for an agent to represent my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home.  With embarrassment as well as humility, I must report I have contacted over 100 representatives and have been ignored or

I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a memoir. Not the story of my life.  Nothing is so extraordinary in my existence that it merits a book.  But a booklet about my four years abroad might be of interest to others.  I left for Europe in the early 1960s and returned nearly fo

Laser printing has lowered the cost of book publishing for everyone. In the case of fiction, that may be a bad thing because the market is flooded with some pretty awful writing, even from the main stream press. But in the case of memoirs, I make an exception. Almost everyone has a st