Keela Ainsworth I tried to comment on your blog but then it disappeared when I tried to post it... I was just thinking about the reasons people read memoirs. Sometimes I read a memoir because I expect it to echo and validate my own experience, and sometimes I choose to read a memoir by someone whose life experience is different from mine because I want to sort of "try on" their worldview. But these are two very different motives for reading a book, and the second kind definitely requires more emotional effort. I guess if you are expecting the first kind and get the second kind, it can be frustrating. Anyway, one would hope there is room in the market for more than one book in your particular genre.