Ellie's Epic

I just read Ellie Kemper's book My Squirrel Days. As she notes in her introduction, if you're a sitcom actress, you get to write a book.  But what do you put in the book?

It'll be about your life, of course, but which parts do you emphasize?  Kemper's best known for starring in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office.  In fact, the subtitle of the paperback version is "Tales from the Star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office." So one might expect a fair amount regarding how she got on these shows, what it was like to work on them and related subjects.

Instead, each show gets a short chapter.  I'm not saying her other stories about growing up, trying to make it, and various issues that amuse or vex her aren't of interest, but would anyone care in the first place if they didn't know her from TV?

Don't get me wrong--I've read other show biz memoirs that recounted many amusing stories before the authors got to the sections dealing with their fame.  Still, if you stint on that, perhaps the reader will feel something's missing.