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Places That Verb Your World – Around the World in Books – Part 2

By Rachel Dacus | February 7, 2018February 22, 2018 by Rachel Dacus

In Places That Verb Your World- Around the World in Books, I’m going to create a series of posts about novels and nonfiction books that take you traveling. Armchair traveling is one of my favorite ways to travel around the world. I’m not much good on an airliner these days, unless in First Class, and so I do a lot of my traveling via books. I have my longtime favorites and my new favorites, which…

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Publishing a Memoir — Strategies & Tricks of Memory

By Rachel Dacus | May 25, 2016November 9, 2017 by Rachel Dacus

They’re like fallen leaves, memories. They arrange themselves in nature’s beautiful random order beyond our ability to perceive, like weather, like a life until you’re looking back on it and suddenly see an organizational purpose. And are amazed into writing about it. The thing is, who else wants to see it? Why is that mysterious, suddenly perceived arrangement important to anyone but you? That’s the question a memoir essay or book must answer. Answering it…