What inspired you to write your memoir?
I taught in urban schools for fifteen years, and during that time did a LOT of writing about teaching. SEARCHING FOR MALUMBA is the best of that fifteen years of writing; I am primarily a science fiction/fantasy author but I always wanted to do a book about teaching as well. This is it.
About your Book:
Luther M. Siler’s long-awaited book about teaching, SEARCHING FOR MALUMBA collects nearly 150 of the best of his essays and blog posts from 15 years of writing about American urban education. Alternately hilarious, sad, furious, horrifying, and touching, as well as frequently profane, Siler’s writings shed a light on the reality of teaching in America’s urban schools during the reign of the No Child Left Behind Act and the rise of standardized testing. Available as an ebook and in print.
How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
It’s published through my own company, Prostetnic Publications. There was never any doubt that I was going to self-publish this; it’s my work the whole way through.
How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
It took a lot longer. I had to live through fifteen years of teaching before I could write about it. 🙂
Author Bio:
Luther M. Siler was born in 1976 in northern Indiana and has spent his life living there or in Chicago. He currently resides in northern Indiana with his wife, young son, and an assortment of pets. He spent fifteen years teaching, mostly at the middle school level, and is currently a full-time freelance writer and editor.
He writes about space gnomes and Mars.
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