Tag: Author struggles
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Unfavourite
As I was writing my Memoir, I was gaslighting myself! Was your childhood really that bad, JD – or did you dramatise it? I actually took to YouTube of all places, to find out how other people have been affected by knowing their parents favoured their sibling over them. One girl commented “if my Mother […]
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It will probably be a year until I see my 1st book
I emailed my “production team” 4 days ago asking for an update on how my Memoir was going. I knew from previous emails that it would be a few months until my book passed the “editing phase” but today an Editor responded to my inquiry saying the editing process “could take 9-12 months” 😳 Oh […]
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Between the lines
My memoir is a careful tightrope balance between speaking my truth and protecting those I love…or in all honesty – trying not to be bollocked by my parents for telling the world their secrets. So I won’t write about my Dad being a raging alcoholic or my Mom buying, selling, growing and smoking marijuana all […]