{"id":8094,"date":"2026-01-30T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:09:56","slug":"gaining-new-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=8094","title":{"rendered":"Gaining a New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life happened since my last post: illness&#8230; loss&#8230; illness&#8230; recovery&#8230; I now approach the New Year soulful, grateful, and hopeful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since my previous blog, I have gained a new perspective on my book,&nbsp;<em>Biography of a Friendship<\/em>, published in March 2024, which was based on my <a href=\"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/news\/people-read-more\/\">notes from the 2025 Vancouver International Publishing Conference<\/a>. They confirmed what I had already experienced and what I have experienced since then.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the \u2018trends and themes\u2019 discussed at that conference, narrative nonfiction such as memoirs, \u201cremain difficult to get traditionally published and to reach an audience.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biography of a Friendship<\/em>&nbsp;fulfilled a promise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biography of a Friendship<\/em>&nbsp;brought awareness to pancreatic cancer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biography of a friendship<\/em>\u00a0has helped more than one reader, a humbling fact.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if gratification is more than in sales, publishing a book is, however, my publisher\u2019s business.&nbsp;For this reason, I am available for book clubs (my gratitude to the&nbsp;West Van Best&nbsp;Book Club&nbsp;for having me in December), book signings, and other roundtable and Zoom discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for contacting me&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/contact\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life happened since my last post: illness&#8230; loss&#8230; illness&#8230; recovery&#8230; I now approach the New Year soulful, grateful, and hopeful.\u00a0 Since my previous blog, I have gained a new perspective on my book,\u00a0Biography of a Friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gaining a New Perspective - Marie-Claude Arnott<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=8094\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gaining a New Perspective - Marie-Claude Arnott\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Life happened since my last post: illness... loss... illness... recovery... 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