Belo Cipriani Answers Reader Questions About Blind: A Memoir

Our client Belo Cipriani answered reader questions about his memoir Blind in a Q&A for Write On Online.

Cipriani explains a deliberate choice behind the book's structure: rather than covering his entire life, he narrowed the memoir to the two years immediately following the assault that took his sight, and used short, focused chapters to walk sighted readers through specific, concrete tasks, cooking, grooming, learning Braille, getting a guide dog, dating, that most people never think to ask about. He notes that most existing memoirs on blindness were written by people born without sight, which left a gap for an account of the actual adjustment period that he set out to fill.

A Q&A like this reaches curious general readers rather than only advocacy circles, which is exactly the kind of broader audience our marketing services aim to reach for a memoir like this. Read the full Q&A on Write On Online.