Memoir question

[frogger]

What if I wrote and published a memoir that dealt with one part of my life, and then I started writing a different memoir that dealt with a completely different aspect of my life. I have reached an area where my two stories have intersected. I know this sounds kinda weird, but is it OK to take similar passages from one memoir and use them in another?

[Lily]

I don't see why not, Frogger. There's always a certain amount of repetition when it's a series. The readers of your first book might get a trifle miffed if there was too much, but kept to a minimum, I'd say it's just fine.

[jacklawson]

It's all down to the publisher. If they're okay with it, then no problem.

[kelly]

To heck with the publisher, if they give you grief self publish, that 's what I did, I got so tired of all the rules and hassles and crap and being treated like dirt.