Abby Alten Schwartz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Healthcare writer and advocate. Freelance journalist. Essayist. Bylines @washingtonpost @nytimes @WIRED @HuffPost & more. #binders Memoir rep’d by @trinitygr

Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
Karen Debonis
Happy Pub Day to @KarenDeBonis for her beautiful memoir, Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived. https://t.co/RAEBB2xWPN
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less
Daniel Jones
I can hammer out a 1500-word essay and capture everything I want to say, I thrive at 100-word Tiny Love Stories, but writing a log-line for my memoir is tripping me up as the most challenging piece of writing. Anyone relate?
Hardcover, 2020
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Goodbye Again
Candace Cahill
Book mail! So proud of my friend @candace_cahill_ for her new memoir, Goodbye Again. Happy pub day! https://t.co/cTdsEcM72I
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Robert Kurson
@Angry_Staffer You’d love Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. True story, absolutely riveting.
Paperback, 2005
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
Jen Waite
@ceciliaclyra A Beautiful, Terrible Thing by Jen Waite
Hardcover, Large Print, 2017
$37.95$18.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
@EMirengoff @Lafayettewrite Add: On Writing by @StephenKing Bird by Bird by @ANNELAMOTT Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and The Art of Memoir by @marykarrlit
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber
Jamie Gehring
Currently reading Madman in the Woods by @JamieGehring and loving it. Third book in 3 weeks by authors I’ve personally met, a bonus of being in the writing community. I’m also FINALLY back to my pre-pandemic pace of a book a week. #amreading #amwriting
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
Allison K. Williams
Working on a reported piece and the blank page is always daunting at first w/ transcripts to sort thru & my own story to weave in so I tried a tip from Seven Drafts by @GuerillaMemoir and started by writing about what I'm going to write and I found my way in.
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks
Susan Shapiro
I knew nothing about pitching editors until I took a course with @Susanshapironet and read her iconic book, The Byline Bible. I did my first pitch to an editor during class and now have bylines in dozens of pubs including Washington Post, NYT, Wired and now HuffPost. Grateful. https://t.co/I4BE8VC6Xx
Paperback, 2018
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir
James Tate Hill
Immediately starting my next TBR book: Blind Man’s Bluff by .@JamesTateHill before the last book I set down is even cold.
Hardcover, 2021
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book