By Amanda K. Jaros I thru-hiked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail when I was 23, hiking through 14 states, from Georgia to Maine. Twenty years later, I decided to write a memoir based on my experience, spent 18 months assembling a solid draft, then sought, acquired, and worked with a publisher over about four years. The […]

How Hiking the Appalachian Trail Prepared Me for Publishing My Memoir