[Stylist] Writing contest

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Typically, fiction sells better than nonfiction. In order to sell a memoir
or autobio, usually, you have to be a celebrity or have gone through some
ordeal that makes national news, like Sully and landing the plane on the
Hudson. Everyone else, we are going to have to go through a small press,
self-publishing, or if a big publishing house picks it up, it's rare for a
non-celebrity memoir or autobio to end up on a best seller list. Nonfiction
is really big right now, but, you have to be known for it to sell. So,
either a celebrity or a literary celeb like David Sedaris. Fiction is still
the biggest item to  be picked up with publishers.

Bridgit

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More successfully selling memoirs and biography makes sense to me, because
only you can write the story of your life in your unique way with wording,
and sometimes fact is stranger than fiction and things happen that we might
never have thought of.


> On Oct 3, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Stylist
<stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Have no idea about the contest, but, memoirs are only on the best 
> seller lists if written by or about a celebrity, and occasionally, if 
> the subject is deemed interesting enough, you might see one, but, 
> typically, it's celebrity memoirs and bios that sell.
> 
> Publishers pick up celebrity memoirs and bios because they know they 
> will sell, allowing them to publish work by others that won't make much
money.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
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> Cc: Janet Dinola Parmerter <janet at parmertours.com 
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> Subject: [Stylist] Writing contest
> 
> Hi All,
> Does anyone know if the writing contest will allow memoirs this year? 
> It was very sad they did not allow them in last year.
> Memoirs are a good portion of our lives. They add a lot to the writing 
> contest, especially for young ones .
> It can be cathartic to write about one's own experiences, and see the 
> humor in life, along with realizing how one's life  may encourage someone
else.
> Then again, reading about the life of someone else may do the same. 
> That is why memoirs are always on the best seller list. To cut out 
> memoirs seems to defeat the whole purpose of the writing contest.
> How do we make sure they are included this year?
> Janet
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