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Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen

Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen / Life Lessons in Story Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen / Life Lessons in Story I took my concern about leaving a legacy of my grandchildren’s stories and wrote a book. My three grandchildren and I had collected a memory list based on completing the sentence “Do you […]

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Why You Should Work With a Coach or an Editor Early in the Process

Clients will often come to me after having done a considerable amount of writing. Sometimes I will receive 200- and 300-page manuscripts. Among them are manuscripts that are really at the editing stage, but… There are too many that are still—in spite of their polished look on the page—in an early stage of development.

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A Sugary Frosting – Book Images

A Sugary Frosting: A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage How I Survived Being a Preacher’s Kid This memoir reveals an underside of being the preacher’s kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister’s-wife mother and of becoming yourself, a person they may not […]

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A Sugary Frosting

If you prefer the e-version at $4.99, click here.   This book reminds us that clergy families are not exempt from family squabbles and estrangements. They are also subject to a highly modest probability of privacy, as Martha reveals that her parents and the church community seemed to view the parsonage as an “open house.” […]

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Advance Reviewer and Beta Reader Teams

Join Our Advance Reviewer and Editor Teams: Our memoir and memoir-writing titles can’t reach their audiences without you! We have an ambitious publishing schedule that extends 18 months into the future, and we need you on board! We welcome you to pitch in either as an advance reviewer or an advance editor for any or […]

Press Room

Much Memoir Writing Information In This Press Room If you are a journalist seeking memoir writing information, you have come to the right website. Below are many press releases that we have made available for you to use as resources to write interesting and useful articles on how your readers can write better memoir. (You […]

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Why Choose a Ghostwriter?

Realize Your Dream: Choose a Ghostwriter “Between you and me, I’m never going to do this,” said the woman on the other end of the phone line, a woman who was signed up for my forthcoming workshop here in Maine.

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Is this really a memoir? You tell me…

I wrote a lengthy reply to Gayle to her question concerning my recent post, “Another Memoir Finished: What Was the Writing Process?” She asked a legitimate question about whether A Sugary Frosting is really a memoir: “Can you call it a memoir when you embellish the writings of your wife and even added stories that […]

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Teaching Memoir Writing – 3 Tips For Making Your Vision Real

Teaching Memoir Writing – Your Vision Can Become Real Writing a vision statement can be stimulating for you as a teacher. Your memoir writing company’s vision statement is a personal reminder you make to yourself about how the work you are planning will sustain you emotionally and make you into a better person. A vision […]