After years of happy, satisfying mentoring with hundreds of clients—possibly thousands if you count workshops and tele-classes, I am ready to let my business, The Memoir Network, move on to someone else who will love it as I have—perhaps this is you!

“Imagine! I have often thought as I led workshops or conducted coaching sessions, “I am actually earning a living doing this wonderful work.” After teaching high school to reluctant “scholars” for (too many!) years, I found memoir work to be a bit of heaven.

Memoir work was my coming home!

Helping people to write their memoirs has been a meaningful “life’s work” to which I have devoted satisfying years. I have been able to help so many people to believe in themselves and in their stories. So many lovely people have told me, “I could never have done this by myself. Thank you.”

In the process, I have also come to believe in myself and in the power of an individual to make a difference in the world.

A Brief History

To view The Memoir Network web pages detailing our history, click here and here.

I have been at this work since 1989. So, I feel fairly safe in writing that helping people write their memoirs via The Memoir Network has been significant and satisfying. In the early days, I used to tell myself, “I’ve come to my emotional home with memoir work. I have come to where I ought to be.”

The workshops came first; then editing, followed by coaching. Ghostwriting came into play at some point in those years. Each has been supported by lead magnets, handouts, blog posts and books.

When writers began to ask me for tips on organizing their own memoir practices, I knew it was time to create a Memoir Professional program within my company. I wrote

• the Curriculum Manual that outlines various workshop modalities,
• The Editor’s Manual to facilitate organizing and maintaining an editing practice,
• Th Speaker’s Manual for success in conducting this significant outreach,
• The Business Manual to help people conduct their work and
• Many ebooks, lead magnets, blog articles and recordings.

Which Leads to the Present…

But, for years now, I have been slowing down my memoir work, and that was good for me. I used to have five people working in the office, and now there is only me.

This spring, I have decided it is time to pass The Memoir Network on to someone else after having led it for 37 years. (It used to be called the Soleil Lifestory Network until 2014.)

I am now down to only one client whom I enjoy working with. She will finish her book in the early fall—and then there will be no clients.

The Focus of This Post: Jumpstart Your Memoir Practice

Over the years at The Memoir Network, I have developed significant assets: webpages, blog posts, lead magnets, courses, manuals, handouts, books, etc.

If you have ever thought of having and/or growing a memoir-writing practice, know that I am offering a jumpstart purchase that will save you years of labor to create your own assets. I am selling (together or separately):

—> the memoir-writing division

This facet offers coaching, editing, ghostwriting and workshopping. This aspect focuses on working directly with individuals who are writing a memoir. Over the years, I have worked singly with hundreds of individuals to write interesting and meaningful books.

The sale includes:

• the website (213 pages published and 137 in draft) and its name
  • The services pages with their blocks of pages to clarify each service.
• the 600 memoir-writing blog posts (another 133 in draft) and the 33 Memoir Professional (another 21 in draft)
• all the lead magnets, the free downloads, the free courses for both programs,
• the relevant manuals,
• the structured memberships, and
• the paid courses.

—> The Memoir-Professional division

The Memoir Professional aspect supports those people who work with individuals to write their memoirs. We call these people Memoir Professionals. About six hundred Memoir Professional Packages have gone out to individual buyers.

• the relevant website pages,
• 53 blog posts
• all the lead magnets, the free downloads, the free courses
• the relevant manuals and
• the paid courses

THE MEMOIR PROFESSIONAL PACKAGE

A digital jumpstart program for lifestory writing teachers, coaches, editors, and ghostwriters.

The MEMOIR PROFESSIONAL PACKAGE includes:

• The Turning Memories Into Memoirs® Curriculum Manual contains workshop variations for you to adapt easily.
• The Editor’s Manual organizes and launches an editing component for your memoir work.
• The Speaker’s Manual provides all you need to create a dynamite outreach strategy to attract clients to your various memoir launches.
• Business Development Coaching MP3s offers you 4 recorded sessions created by Denis Ledoux in response to Memoir Professionals’ most often asked questions.
• Writing Development Coaching MP3s provide 12 recorded sessions by Denis Ledoux.
• The e-book Turning Memories Into Memoirs/ A Handbook for Writing Lifestories.
• The MP3 audio of the Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories.
• The Lifewriter’s Memory Binder is easy to print and place in a three-ring binder.
• The e-book Build Your Memoir Business. Helps Professionals who have never dealt with creating their own business structure.

The Bottom Line

• Paying cash (ok, credit card or PayPal are options in addition to cash).
• I will not be financing the sale.
• The sale price is in the prospectus.

In Conclusion

If you are interested, visit The Memoir Network. In the last years, as my energy has waned, the site has fallen into slight disrepair, but that is an easy fix. You will, of course, want to add your own branding as time goes by. The foundation will be there for you.

If you are seriously interested in knowing more about The Memoir Network, request our prospectus: [email protected].

After studying the prospectus, if you remain interested, I will schedule a Zoom call to answer your questions.