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Help for Your Memoir Writing: Add One of Our Professional Writers to Your Team

Our team of seasoned writers is available to help you to turn your manuscript into a book that others will enjoy reading. It’s not enough to feel deeply as you write. It’s essential to convey that feeling in your prose. We will provide you help for your memoir writing—whether your audience is family and friends or the world.

We work closely not only with the prose of your text but also with its structure. Form does lead to meaning.

Memoir Editor Denis Ledoux

Denis Ledoux, M.A. ED.

Founder, Editor-in-Chief

Denis Ledoux is the founder, director, and editor-in-chief of The Memoir Network, and its predecessor, The Soleil Lifestory Network, and the author of the classic Turning Memories Into Memoirs, A Handbook for Writing Lifestories, and originator of the Turning Memories® Workshops.

He has worked with thousands of first-time and experienced writers through his workshops, as a writing editor, coach, and ghostwriter. He knows first-hand how to extend help for your memoir writing.

Denis holds a master’s degree in education and, in another life, taught English, creative writing, French, and Latin at both the high school and university levels. He especially enjoys the challenges of working with writers of all levels of accomplishment to craft insightful and well-written memoir out of personal and family histories.

He was twice chosen for a Maine Individual Writing Fellowship and his collection of short stories, Mountain Dance, was selected for a Maine Fiction Award.

Denis Ledoux lives and works in his native Maine. For an in-depth interview with The Memoir Network director, click here.

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YuenSarahcrop300x200Sarah Yuen

Associate Memoir Professional

Sarah Yuen is a 35-year veteran broadcast and print journalist as well as a writer, novelist and playwright. She has worked as reporter and editor for many global news outlets (Sky, ITV, CNN, BBC etc.), has edited numerous books, and has her own books presently available online, ranging from comedy to drama. She has also co-written two off-Broadway plays.

Her own memoir, Making the Break, is about her ski business in the French Alps. Sarah has mentored writers to achieve their own writing ambitions. She finds helping others get exactly what they want down on a page to be the most satisfying job of all. Help for your memoir is her specialty.

“I am fascinated by everything and everyone. People have such amazing life stories and such innovative ways to tell them! I love the art of writing in all forms. It’s my passion. One of the most important things one learns as an editor is to spot the top line, and I believe that can help new writers identify the most interesting parts of their life stories.”—Sarah Yuen

Sarah splits her time between Asia and North America. She is happy to work with clients in whatever way they find most comfortable, from a gentle guiding hand to a full ghostwriter service. She knows what help for your memoir writing is at its best.

To read a sample of Sarah’s work, click here.


 Steve Hrehovcik

Associate Memoir Professional

Steve Hrehovcik’s recent memoir, Rebel Without A Clue – A Way-Off Broadway Memoir, chronicles his dream of pursuing a career in the theater.

Among Steve’s successful writing projects were editing the memoir of a woman who had to overcome the long-held bias against women in the workplace and educational institutions and a book providing helpful tips and techniques for success in business—and much more. With Steve’s mentoring, you will receive great help for your memoir writing.

“I realize so many people have a dream of producing a memoir, but don’t know how to really get going. My experience writing Rebel Without A Clue – A Way-Off Broadway Memoir provides me with a foundation to guide writers to succeed at writing their story with passion and clarity. As an editor and / or coach, I listen for ways I can help a writer to make a story to vivid and meaningful. Often writers do not notice the thread that weaves through their life’s stories or are unable to organize the manuscript so it has an effective structure.”Steve Hrehovick

Steve is a versatile and accomplished writer. In addition to work with memoirs, he has written more than 750 features for newspapers, magazines and trade publicationsfrom personal profiles, historical accounts and vacation highlights, to art exhibit openings and theater reviews. His writing credits also include movie, stage and television scripts, business reports, advertising and public relations pieces.

Steve lives with his wife Carol in Kennebunk, Maine. They are the parents of three grown children.

To read a sample of Steve’s work, click here.


TMN editorFrancie King

Associate Editor

Francie King is a writer, editor, and proofreader with a passion for writing profiles, memoirs, and personal biographies. Along with writing or editing more than two dozen books, she has published work for museums and universities, news organizations, magazines, and government publications. Among her own favorite recent projects are the life story of a Chinese immigrant family, the account (ultimately tragic) of an American family in World War II, and a rags-to-riches memoir of a chief executive of a major American company. For Francie, editing and proofreading require a clear eye for both big picture and small detail, along with devotion to maintaining a client’s own voice. Francie lives and works in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

To read a sample of Francie’s writing, click here.


Are you ready to work with a memoir professional?

We offer an introductory package—try us for a three-hour commitment. That’s it: three hours! If we’re a fit, you ask us for more time. If we’re not a fit, we go our separate ways.

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