Memoir Writing

When a potential student contacted me about memoir writing, I thought of freelancer Lonnie Burstein Hewitt. She's written an inexpensive trade paperback guide for biography/memoir writers, The Little Red Writing Book. It was a kick for me to meet her, because she's also the author of a book I first bought and used in 1986, A Guide to Walking San Diego. We discussed the practicality of the newest self-publishing technique, Print/Publish on Demand (POD), but reached no firm conclusions on the phenomenon. She's done it once, and I've been researching POD for about a year. The reviews are mixed and still coming in.