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How I Won 12 Book Awards for My Memoir

March 7, 2017 by diannejacob 10 Comments

A guest post by Judith Newton

Since independently publishing my food memoir, Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen (She Writes Press) in 2013, my book has won 12 book awards. Once Dianne found this out, she asked me to speculate about why.

Tasting Home, to give you some sense of the book, is a feminist coming-of-age story about overcoming childhood and other traumas. Cooking for and dining with others had been fundamental to this process. Each chapter [Read more…] about How I Won 12 Book Awards for My Memoir

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Memoir Tagged With: how to win book awards, writing food memoir, writing memoir

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