Sarah LaBrie: There’s a Lot of Scary Information About Publishing on the Internet

Sarah LaBrie is a writer from Houston, Texas. Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and her fiction appears in Guernica , The Literary Review , and the Los Angeles Review of Books . She has held residencies at Yaddo, UCross and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Los Angeles where she has written for television shows including “Minx” (Starz), “Blindspotting” (Starz), “Made for Love” (MAX), and “Love, Victor” (Hulu). She holds an MFA from NYU where she was a Writers in the Schools fellow. Follow her on Instagram . In this interview, Sarah discusses having a strong “want” and how that motivation helped drive her toward her debut memoir, No One Gets to Fall Apart , the scary publishing information online, and more. Name: Sarah LaBrie Literary agent: Claudia Ballard Book title: No One Gets to Fall Apart Publisher: HarperCollins Release date: October 22, 2024 Genre/category: Memoir Elevator pitch: No One Gets to Fall Apart is a memoir about the year after my mother’s psychotic break and my attempts to find out what caused it. In it, I trace the legacy of mental illness in our family back to our ancestors, who were enslaved. Bookshop | Amazon [WD uses affiliate links.] What prompted you to write this book? My mother had just been diagnosed with schizophrenia in Houston and was refusing treatment and medication. My grandmother and aunt were caring for her, and none of us knew what was going to happen. My mother treated me badly when I was growing up, due to what I suspect was undiagnosed borderline personality disorder, so we hadn’t been speaking for years. I was living in Los Angeles trying to become a writer. Around the time of my mom’s breakdown, one of my closest friends abruptly ended our friendship. The novel I’d dedicated my life to writing, The Anatomy Book , hit a wall. I was incredibly depressed. I felt like if I didn’t write everything down that was happening to me, I would die. So, I did that. How long did it take […]

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