Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir

Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper-or on a Web site or other media. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different authors as well as writing exercises, this guide will help you navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and help you find the courage to write. It will aid beginners as well as more accomplished writers. Book jacket.

Sue William Silverman is a faculty advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and the associate editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Her first book, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (Georgia), received the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction (made into a Lifetime TV movie) and Hieroglyphics in Neon, a collection of poems.