Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview

Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert's How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview

For me, the exercise of doing the proposal was very difficult, but very important and very helpful. Again, as a magazine journalist, I think I felt a little intimidated by the openness of a whole book, and creating that structure was very helpful. I wrote a very detailed, specific book proposal including an outline. I listed specific chapters, chapter by chapter, and chapter summaries.

And when we had the January residency and we had the opportunity to practice our pitch with real agents. The first person that I was paired with said to me, after I did my pitch, “it’s a food memoir, right? Food is the organizing principle.” That’s what made me decide, you know there’s food, because my father almost starved to death, right?

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