Sue William Silverman

Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir

Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

INFORMATION FOR MEDIA


Contact Sue at 616.847.1991
suesilverman(at)charter.net
alternate e-mail: suewilliamsilverman(at)yahoo.com

Sue is a professional speaker on such topics as sexual addiction, child abuse prevention, and family dynamics. She delivers presentations at colleges and universities, professional conferences, and social service organizations. She also speaks about the importance of writing your life story.

Sue has appeared on many national radio and television programs such as The View, Anderson Cooper-360, CNN-Headline News, the Discovery Channel, a John Stossel Special on ABC-TV, the Montel Williams Show, the Ricki Lake Show, the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. She was also featured in an episode of "The Secret Lives of Women" on WE-TV. Sue teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

BOOKS

Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction, was also made into a Lifetime Television Original Movie.

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction

Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir is for beginning and experienced writers alike, and is a road map for writing life stories. It is a step-by-step guide to shaping memory into art, to turning imagery into metaphor – all the elements needed to craft raw experience into a fully formed story.

Please click here to watch video book trailer for "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir."

MY BOOKS

CRAFT of WRITING
This is a guidebook about how to craft compelling art out of personal experience. "Fearless Confessions" is for beginning and experienced writers alike, who want to write their own life stories. Please click title to see the Table of Contents.
MEMOIRS
"A deeply personal story of a woman's addiction to and recovery from the high of dangerous encounters. This utterly candid account is the only memoir by a woman to examine sexual addiction. It is a powerful, often lyrical book with strong resonance for other addictions, whether to food, drugs, alcohol, or work--for anyone whose only satisfaction is now." (Click on title, above, to read excerpt.)
Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Creative Nonfiction
"A harrowing memoir of the mute language of incest and the powerful words of survival."(Click on title, above, to read excerpt.)
POETRY
Please click on title to read selected poems. "Silverman's collection is a bracing debut--rangy, restless, giddy with lush particulars." ~~ David Wojahn
SHORT WORKS
This short article, first published in "The Writer's Chronicle," is included in the Appendix of Sue's book, "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir."
Sue's Reading List

Quick Links

PIF Magazine
Read an interview with Sue, about writing, on PIF Magazine, one of the oldest on-line journals.
Read Sue's article, "In Defense of Memoir: Once More into the Fray," on the brevity.com blog site.
Read Sue's article on Numero Cinq: "The Courage to Write and Publish Your Story: 5 Reasons Why it's Important to Write Memoir
Please read Sue's essay, "We Regret to Inform You," on Defunct Magazine
Please read review of "Fearless Confessions" on brevity.com.
Read a review of "Love Sick" on women's memoirs.com.
"Write the Book" POD interview with Sue, conducted by Shelagh Shapiro.
Listen to an interview with Sue about writing a memoir, at Women's Memoirs.com
Read a review of "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You" at women's memoirs.com.
Read interview with Sue at the National Association of Memoir Writers website.
Read an interview with Sue, about "Fearless Confessions," on Writing it Real.com.
Read interview and review with Sue about "Fearless Confessions" on Story Circle Book Review website.
Read a review of "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You"
Read a review on "venuszine" that compares the movie "Love Sick" with Sue's memoir "Love Sick."
Read an interview with Sue about spirituality in the Grand Rapids Press.
Here's a podcast of Sue's interview "All About Sexual Addiction" on Lisa.FM, Leading Edge Talk.
Please click here to hear Sue's interview on Psych Journey Audio Book Club. She discusses her second memoir Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction.
Read Sue's craft article on the use of voice in creative nonfiction on "Brevity.com."
Read Sue's short essay "Archipelago," published on "Brevity.com."
Please click here to hear Sue's interview on Psych Journey Audio Book Club. She discusses her first memoir Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You.
Find Authors
Read Sue's interview about memoir writing at www.writingitreal.com.
Read a book review of "Love Sick" on the Metapsychology On-Line Book Store.
Book review of "Love Sick" at recoveryworld.com.