How to Edit a Memoir: Insights from a Book Editor

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

*Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Chelsea sits down with Grace Towery, her book editor from Hanover Square Press, to peel back the layers of the book publishing process. From the initial pitches to the intricate editing phases and finally, to publication, Chelsea and Grace share personal stories, challenges, and triumphs in the journey to publish Chelsea's memoir: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This. This episode offers a glimpse into the publishing world's creative dynamics and offers insights for aspiring writers and readers alike. And if you want to chat more about writing, join the Patreon community, where Chelsea will be dropping more episodes featuring behind-the-scenes info on writing and publishing. Show Notes: Behind the scenes of Chelsea's memoir episode Where to pre-order Chelsea’s book: Bookshop.org Find other places to pre-order Where to find our guest: Grace Towery X(Twitter) If you have an exciting book project in the works, have your agent reach out to her! *** For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club Patreon! Glamorous Trash: Where we make treasure out of pop culture garbage. 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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0:25.6	This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hey, all of the glamour and all of the trash if you have ever referenced
0:43.4	my a carrion therapy then this is probably the podcast for you. I'm your
0:47.2	host Chelsea Dervantes I'm a TV writer comedian and filmmaker and
0:50.8	very soon to be author and that segues us into this episode which is a tangent from our normal
0:57.8	content this is a special bonus episode a Patreon only I am talking to my book editor who edited my book and we're
1:06.2	going to talk about writing and publishing and all the ins and outs this is a
1:10.8	Patreon only episode to thank the cookies for keeping this
1:14.2	podcast financially alive. Sign up if you want the episode because also on
1:18.4	Patreon we can talk a little more intimately we can share things we wouldn't
1:22.3	share everywhere
1:23.6	because this is just for the community and if you're a part of the community and
1:27.4	you're on Patreon and you are a creative go to the chat I recently saw one of
1:31.5	the cookies Courtney what up Courtney kind of
1:33.7	workshop a piece of an essay she was writing like in the Patreon chat she got these
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