“Everything is copy,” as Nora Ephron always said.
It means, in the final analysis, that your whole life is fodder for your writing, and everything and anything that happens to you is fair game – is your story to tell.
One of the things that impresses the hell out of me, is when someone can take a tragedy, and have the presence to write about it in a way that draws the reader in. What is even more impressive is when that tragedy can come through the filter of the still-grieving writer and become something funny and poignant.
Ephron had Heartburn. She turned her own divorce into a masterful comedy. Tracy Beckerman gives us Barking at the Moon – a Story of Life, Love and Kibble
“Barking at the Moon” is Beckerman’s funny tale of the dog, Riley, and life with a big dog… a big family… and big emotions. It is funny, poignant and real.
If you’re a mom, a dog lover or need a laugh, get this book. For the rest of January, the e-book is 75% off at $2.99. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Barking-at-Moon-Tracy-Beckerman/dp/1632993937
TRACY BECKERMAN is an award-winning author, speaker, and syndicated humor columnist who has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and Good Day New York. Her numerous honors for writing include the prestigious Writer’s Guild of America award, an Erma Bombeck Writer’s award, and a New York Emmy®.
Tracy is also the author of the humor book, Lost in Suburbia: A Momoir: How I Got Pregnant, Lost Myself, and Got My Cool Back in the New Jersey Suburbs (Perigee Books, 2013). Her first book, Rebel without a Minivan: Observations on Life in the ‘Burbs,‘ was released in 2008.
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Tracy had 18 people mention or review her book in a blog post – including me. I also asked Tracy to help us to understand this marketing tactic for the book – the Blog Tour. You can read about it, here, (as of Sunday Jan 30th, when it posts.) What tactics do you imagine using for your book launch? Was BLOG TOUR one of them? Read more here! (to be posted, 1/30/22)
We can talk more about it in the FB Group, Write Without the Fight. Ask to join if you haven’t already.