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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
This morning I finished the first draft of my "memoir" (scare quotes because I feel self-conscious, because why would a no-name college professor only about halfway through her expected lifespan write a memoir?). Now to print it out, read it through, decide what needs work, and get to that. Also finding an agent. Non-academic publishing is so very different from academic publishing, where you cold submit to presses and go right to working with an editor.
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Congrats--that's awesome! I mean...I'm also working on a memoir, so I'd like to think that people want to read stuff by those whose names aren't known, but who might have interesting stories. The instructor of my recent class fit that category and got published by a Big 5 house.
I think the first draft is the hardest part of any writing, really, so you've crossed that hurdle. As the saying goes, you can't edit a blank page. I hope the editing process goes well, along with the search for an agent.
The class I took had a section on getting published that included various resources. Let me know if you're interested in any of those, and I can PM you. (It's a few websites, nothing exclusive to the class, though you may already be aware of them.)