How attending events can inform your writing & build community

These days, it’s hard to get a book deal for a literary memoir if you’re not famous and don’t have a big platform. You have a better chance of getting a book deal if you pursue what the publishing industry is increasingly referring to as “memoir plus” — memoir plus reportage, for instance, or memoir plus a social history of a topic, or memoir plus ... See more

The very word slip suggests some sort of movement; you can't slip, after all, if you’re standing still.