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Book bloggers are tearing their hair out about Love and Consequences, a memoir about growing up in street gangs that was COMPLETELY FABRICATED by Margaret B. Jones. The Amazon page for the recently debunked book alone contains enough crazy quotes to write a whole doctoral dissertation about the dysfunctional state of the American memoir. 

Forget about people like that. My guest writers don't cheat. 

Last week we had a visit from Janice Erlbaum, exploring the story behind her new memoir, Have You Found Her. During her week-long visit, Erlbaum delivered a graduate-level course about how she turned her real-life journals into an troubled, tough story. 

Just follow these links to wipe the chalky taste of fake memoirs out of your brain...

Erlbaum showed us How To Negotiate A Book Deal.

Then she explained How To Become A Memoir Detective.

After that, we discussed "One of the dirty little secrets of writing professionally."

Then, we focused on The Fine Art of Journal Writing.

Finally, she explained How To Build A *Real* Memoir Scene