idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
How important is “proof”?
Like how do I “prove” my story?
Do they just get a private investigator to investigate me?
How about like sibling abuse? How am I supposed to prove that? Like it happens at home and there are no witnesses besides… well us… it’s a “he said she said” situation.
What about like events in another country that was born in and lived in for a bit of my early childhood.
Like…
Damn I feel like I’m gonna have to self-publish it and them nobody is gonna believe me…
Oh well…
I guess I’ll just have to feel like many of those victims that nobody ever believes…
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If its required, how the fuck did “A Million Little Pieces” get published?
Also, I could just Kindle Direct Publish it… whatever… its not like I care that much about money, I just want my story to be heard.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.