Behind The Bangs: How to Pitch a Memoir (with Kyle Ridley)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Join Chelsea Devantez and Emmy award-winning producer Kyle Ridley (Good Day DC) for a practical guide to pitching your memoir. This episode unpacks everything from crafting an engaging outline to finding the right agent and editor who can champion your work. Chelsea opens up about her journey and shares critical steps and common pitfalls in memoir publishing, including “having a platform.” This is a must-listen for anyone ready to tell (and sell) their story. We’re going on tour in June! Tour info here! Where to pre-order Chelsea’s book: Bookshop.org Find other places to pre-order Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Join the cookie community: Become a member of the Patreon Show Notes: Listen to our How to Edit a Memoir episode Listen to Behind the Scenes of Chelsea’s Memoir Listen to our Betty Gilpin episode with Kyle Everyone’s A Sellout Now (article referenced in the episode) Where to find our Guest: Kyle Ridley Instagram *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Tanteo Tequila - @tanteotequila Pattern Brands - @patternbrands Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine being the first person to ever send a payment over the internet.
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0:21.2	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:23.7	This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.
0:29.1	Must remember. Do not forget.
0:36.5	Remind me to bring photo ID.
0:39.3	Reminder, set.
0:41.3	Bab, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:45.0	All right, love.
0:48.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:53.0	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org.
0:55.1	UK slash voter ID. Welcome to Glamorous Trash. This is a Celebrity Memoir Podcast where we dig into all of the
1:09.2	glamour and all of the trash. And today we are taking a tangent, digging into the business of memoir,
1:16.4	writing a memoir, selling a memoir. This is a series I'm going to call behind the bangs, where I will talk about the technical process of writing and all my experience from other things I've written for.
1:28.0	I'm also doing a Behind the Bangs workshop in every city this June when we go on a book tour so check out the link in the show
1:35.6	notes. This is sort of our third behind the bangs episode. I did an emotional episode talking about what it felt like to write the memoir
1:45.5	this fall. Last month I spoke to my book editor Grace on the Patreon about what it was
1:50.2	like to edit a memoir and work with an editor.
1:52.8	In this episode, I'm going to talk about how to pitch a memoir
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