Sue William Silverman

The Lifetime Television Movie of Love Sick, based on Sue's memoir, is now available to watch on the Lifetime website. Click on "Lifetime TV Movie," above, for direct link.


SUE'S NEW BOOK, FEARLESS CONFESSIONS: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, is now available.

"I dutifully recommend Lamott's Bird by Bird, Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones and King's On Writing to my students each term, but I find that I'm particularly excited to inform them of Silverman's new book. Her writing has a...tone that's...both accessible to readers and uncompromising in its rigorous investigation of what makes for compelling memoir." ~~ from review in The Writer Magazine

To read the full review of Fearless Confessions in the July issue of The Writer, as well as to see the Table of Contents, please click on the book title on the right-hand column of this page. Thank you!

Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by writing of their experiences. Enhanced with writing exercises, it will help you navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. It also examines the emotional concerns we face when telling intimate, personal, and family secrets.

"It's crucial to cultivate the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces--from family members to the media--who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts remain silent." ~~ from Fearless Confessions

In Fearless Confessions, I share my own experiences learning how to write, with the hope it'll help and encourage you to tell your story, too.

Sue is also the author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You. Her second memoir, made into a Lifetime TV movie, is Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction. She teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Contact Sue at suesilverman(at)charter.net. (Click on "About Sue & Contact," above, for addtional contact information.)