NOTE: You are invited to the book launch for French Boy! The links to attend live or via Zoom are at the end of this press release. Re: French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood / Denis Ledoux, Soleil Press, 2024, 345 pages, photos, $19.95. Contact: [email protected] Release date: October 16, 2023 “It was a […]
Do you have a plan for memoir business strategies? An important strategy is a vision. Here are 3 questions to ask about your business vision.
It will be hard for you to generate an attractive income without a diversified, full-service product line to offer to the public—especially to existing customers. Existing clients are easier, cheaper to sell to than new customers. They already trust you and have seen your track record. Providing they have further needs, they will buy from […]
Do you know how to target your hourly wage? The fact is many–and perhaps most–lifewriting professionals have no idea how much they are making per hour. Do you?
Denis Ledoux: At The Memoir Network, we had the pleasure of working with Nelida Napuli Co as she polished her memoir, Vinegar and SARS, with one of our editors, Frances King, and focused on book production with Sally Lunt. Because of her insightful articulation of a unique experience—living in China during the SARS epidemic, I […]
If you believe you have the skills and stamina to undertake handling the publication process yourself, read on. The following will help you to succeed…
Last week, I realized I needed to acknowledge to myself that I was in the end stage before publication of writing my memoir. For one thing, I finally came up with a name—French Boy / Growing Up Franco-American—that I’m likely to keep. (So many titles in the trash!) This title reveals the content of the […]
The Intro Business Development Package will guide your memoir work long after you have finished listening to and reading its material. The Intro Business Development Package will help you to create and maintain a more profitable memoir practice. Materials from The Memoir Network… …helped me to teach and organize a business that gave people the […]
Writers ask me how to choose a best title for a memoir. Because I have worked with them, usually as their coach or editor and know their story, I am in a position to brainstorm with them to come up with a decent —and sometimes even a great—title for their book. Editor’s Note: This content […]