I never expected to make the transition to writing memoir. As a long-time novelist, I was used to fabricating stories – as opposed to recounting them. But then I realized that the most memorable, most “true,” most evocative parts of the novels I was writing were based – sometimes loosely, other times directly – on my actual experiences. In my book, The Dating Diet, I wrote about a character attempting to climb into what she thinks is the window of her hotel room only to di