Daring to Tell Michelle Redo

Abigail Thomas author of the memoirs Still Life at Eighty, A Three Dog Life, What Comes Next and How to Like it, and Safekeeping talks with Michelle Redo about writing and life, and reads from some new writing she's been doing, a piece called Deathbed Regrets.
Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com
Listen to The Band's Stagefright
Link to Abigail Thomas' books from The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY.

Equally daring to writing your memoir is then, the work of marketing it.
Jenn Hanson-dePaula shares valuable info and insight about marketing your book. And by the way... even if you're only working on your manuscript, it's not too early to start thinking about who you want to connect with about your story.
Learn more about Jenn Hanson-dePaula, Book Marketing Simplified and Mixtus Media.
Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do, at my website, michelleredo.com.
Jenn also talks about the Rick Rubin book The Creative Act and author Sally Pla.
Michelle also mentions her interview with Diane Gottlieb's blog WomanPause.

Thanks for listening!
Visit Margaret Mandell's website
Pre-order And Always One More Time at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
Read Margaret's essays at Oldster and Brevity Blog.
Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com
Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp

Mentioned in this episode...
Heart of the Story Podcast with Nadine Kenney Johnstone
A Hard Silence by Melanie Brooks
Sushi Tuesdays Audiobook by Charlotte Maya
Open Heart Project of Susan Piver
Sign up for Michelle's newsletter The Re-do
Listen to more of Phil Redo's music
Add a Tip to help support this podcast

Michelle Redo talks with Diane Gottlieb, Editor of the new essay anthology called Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Diane also is the Prose/CNF editor of Emerge Literary Journal, and has a blog called WomenPause- conversations with women over 50 and the people who love them.
Nina Lichtenstein is the founder of Maine Writers Studio, and the author of the forthcoming memoir, Body: My Life in Parts, due for publication in the spring of 2025 from Vine Leaves Press. (Quite coincidentally, the same publisher of Melanie Brooks's memoir featured just last month on Daring to Tell—A Hard Silence.)
Sign up for Michelle's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com.
Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp or on Spotify.

Author Melanie Brooks is back with the release of her memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all.
More about her first book, Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma.
Sign up for Michelle's monthly newsletter The Re-do
Listen to more of Phil Redo's music