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Says R.D. Byron-Smith: "This is a book for inexperienced writers who don't want to look like it." If you’re among lucky readers who laughed their way through his Amazon-bestselling memoir, TRUE STORIES I Never Told My Kids, fans of memoirist R.D. Byron-Smith are in for another literary treat. YOUR STORY, MY WAY: A Memoir on Memoirs and How to Write Them is not only a worthy follow-up to TRUE STORIES. It’s a whole new genre: a memoir about how to write a memoir. It reveals a full array of writing tips used by the author during forty years of professional writing. These are writing tools found in no other “how-to” book anywhere, and there are three chapters full. There is also an easy-to-follow "memoir construction zone" to get your towering masterpiece underway. Along with these tricks of the trade, the author entertains readers with colorful anecdotes of how he learned them. For readers wanting to write about their own lives, whether for publication or for a family record, Mr. Byron-Smith, whose first memoir, Dinner with a Killer became a TV docudrama, provides plain-spoken instruction of how to develop and focus a memoir topic. Having been involved in two U.S. Supreme Court precedents in First Amendment law, the author also outlines in non-lawyer-speak laws that would-be memoirists must be aware of. But, YOUR STORY is also for the lovers of TRUE STORIES who have begged for more unforgettable (and true) tales from the life of this witty and wild reporter in the golden age of newspapers. YOUR STORY, MY WAY is the kind of inventiveness readers expect from R.D. Byron-Smith. It is written for all ages. So if you've been mining for a how-to book to help launch your career as a memoirist, then you're digging in the right spot. – Pilar Publishing of California. Read more
