Making The Most Of Your Memories: Memoir Writing Made Simple with David Mark and Effie Merryl

Do you want to write a memoir and don’t know how to get going? Or have you started and stopped, not sure where to turn? Maybe there's a period in your life that you want to explore and turn into something others can experience for themselves. If this sounds familiar then this masterclass is for you.

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There are so many rich possibilities for compelling narratives based on our true stories – including lives and experiences that might seem very ordinary until they’re held up to the light.

Bestselling novelist and memoirist David Mark will take you on an exploration of your memories, guiding you through the techniques you’ll need to breathe life into your prose style and convert your lived experience into a readable and engaging story.

David will be joined by one of the busiest scribes in publishing.

Ash Cameron is a pseudonym for FE Birch, which is a pseudonym for Effie Merryl, which is a pseudonym for the real me.

Ash joined the police in the 80s – think Life on Mars with added ladders in her tights. From arresting East End gangsters, dealing out justice to football hooligans and coping with sexism on the job, Ash did it all. So when asked to go undercover, well, it was just another job, wasn’t it?

FE Birch is writer of police novels covering serious topics of justice and domestic noir. She hails from the North East but she ain’t no Geordie. As Effie Merryl, she is an award-winning short story writer. With as many more stories than names, it’s hard to keep track of what she’ll do next.

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David Mark

David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post - walking the Hull streets that would later become the setting for the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels. His writing is heavily influenced by the court cases he covered: the defeatist and jaded police officers; the competent and incompetent investigators; the inertia of the justice system and the sheer raw grief of those touched by savagery and tragedy. He has written eight novels in the McAvoy series: Dark Winter, Original Skin, Sorrow Bound, Taking Pity, Dead Pretty, Cruel Mercy, Scorched Earth and Cold Bones as well as two McAvoy novellas, A Bad Death and Fire of Lies, which are available as ebooks. His first historical thriller, The Zealot’s Bones, is out now. Dark Winter was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel (where he was Reader in Residence) and was a Richard & Judy pick and a Sunday Times bestseller. Dead Pretty was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger in 2016.

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