Life happened since my last post: illness… loss… illness… recovery… I now approach the New Year soulful, grateful, and hopeful.
Since my previous blog, I have gained a new perspective on my book, Biography of a Friendship, published in March 2024, which was based on the notes I took at the 2025 Vancouver International Publishing Conference. They confirmed what I had already experienced and what I have experienced since then.
As per the ‘trends and themes’ discussed at that conference, narrative nonfiction such as memoirs, “remain difficult to get traditionally published and to reach an audience.”
As I reflect on this hurdle, and as an author who is not a public figure, I am grateful that my memoir was traditionally published and hopeful that it will reach a wider audience. I see my glass half full.
Biography of a Friendship fulfilled a promise.
Biography of a Friendship brought awareness to pancreatic cancer.
Biography of a friendship has helped more than one reader, which is humbling.
Even if gratification is more than in sales, publishing a book is, however, my publisher’s business. For this reason, I am available for book clubs (my gratitude to the West Van Best Book Club for having me in December), book signings, and other roundtable and Zoom discussions.
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