Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing How Recovery Supports Memoir Writing and Book Marketing Tips with Laura Cathcart Robbins
Author Laura Cathcart Robbins shares book marketing tips she learned while promoting her memoir Stash: My Life in Hiding, and how recovery helped her cultivate the honesty needed to write her memoir.
Laura’s Bio: Laura Cathcart Robbins is the best-selling author of the Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, Stash, My Life In Hiding, and host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Her recent articles on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. She is a 2022 TEDx Speaker, and LA Moth StorySlam winner. Currently, she sits on the advisory boards of the San Diego Writer’s Festival and the Outliers HQ podcast Festival.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
I Was the Only Black Person at Elizabeth Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Brave’ Magic Retreat by Laura Cathcart Robbins
“A White Woman Told Me She Doesn’t Think of Me as Black. Here’s How I Reacted.” by Laura Cathcart Robbins
Book Review for Stash: My Life in Hiding by Lisa Cooper Ellison
Author Platform Is Not a Requirement to Sell Your Novel or Children’s Book by Jane Friedman
Episode Highlights
9:00 The Response to Stash
14:00 The Power of Honesty
16:00 The Link Between Recovery and Honesty
24:00 Channeling Your Energy in a Specific Direction
26:00 Marketing Your Book and Yourself
34:30 Caring For Yourself As You Market Your Book
41:00 Year Two and Working with Book Clubs
47:00 How Honesty Builds Resilience
Connect with Laura
Website: https://lauracathcartrobbins.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lauracathcartrobbins
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauracathcartrobbins
X: https://twitter.com/lauracrobbins
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