Our special focus is on working with the first-time and perhaps only-time writer.

If  you are making a first foray into memoir writing and want to make your experience easier and better, you are in luck. You have come to the right website for memoir-writing help.

We are the memoir people.

The Memoir Network is a “boutique” agency devoted to coaching, editing and writing memoir—your memoir—that will help you develop the skills and confidence you need to write to the end.

Our goal is to deliver the memoir-writing help you need when you need it and as you need it.

We don’t just help you how to put words together—although we do that really well. We help you as a first-time, and possibly only-time, memoir writer to create a deeper, more meaningful manuscript—from the inside out.

Who Seeks Memoir-Writing Help From Us?

• writers who’ve written a lot of words and know that their text just doesn’t add up to a book.
• writers who are spinning their wheels. Changing “house” to “home” and back to “house.” Frankly, these folks need substantive and perceptive feedback.
• writers who wouldn’t rewire their homes without checking in with someone who can show them how to best do the work. Expertise has its place!
• writers who don’t want to spend years and years writing. They want to get the task done quickly and well and then move on to some other project in their lives. (After all, most of our clients do not intend to morph into writers! What most of them want to produce is one book—a memoir.)
• writers who want another pair of eyes on their memoir before they send it out into the world.

Our Track Record

Since the fall of 1988, The Memoir Network has been the best source of help to write interesting and meaningful memoirs. Not dull chronologies. Meaningful, interestingly told lifestories that portray lives with depth, fluency, and style. These are memoirs other people want to read.

We help you to write—as we call it—from the inside out. A new concept for you perhaps, but isn’t that how you lived your life—from the inside out? So why not write from your deep insights from the beginning of your writing process?

Over the years, a constant response to our inside-out method has been the comment: “How did you know that about me?”

The answer was always the same: “I don’t know that. I just intuited it. I sensed it was right.” This is what makes our work with you good—better than good.

Coaching editing, and teaching from the inside out works well.

With The Memoir Network, you benefit from the extensive writing and teaching experience of TMN founder Denis Ledoux, M.A. Ed., and of his team of accomplished, intuitive editors and coaches. Denis and his team are active writers immersed in their own memoir writing.

Our goal is simple: to provide you the best memoir-writing help available to get your book written and published. Whether the team coaches, edits, or ghostwrites, or executes your book production, they deliver “just in time” help to get you functioning at your best.

My book, The Legend of Barjo Restaurant / The Life of Josephine McAllister Stone, might never have become a reality if I hadn’t had the services provided by The Memoir Network. Through the guidance of Denis Ledoux and his team, my rough manuscript became a polished book of 416 pages with over 120 pictures.

Denis taught me so much about writing: the need to keep asking, “What is this really about? What do I really want to say here?” He helped me to respect chronology to better understand cause and effect, to make more effective transitions from one chapter to the next and how to “hook” the reader.

The Memoir Network guided me to heights I never dreamed of. Our work together has been a truly exhilarating experience. I recommend them highly.

— Emily Foster, Norway, Maine
The Legend of Barjo Restaurant

Your Next Step to Great Memoir-Writing Help

Browse this overview of The Memoir Network memoir-writing help and then choose what is best for you at this time.

A free consultation with Denis Ledoux is available if you want help to assess which option is best for you.

For an appointment, call 207-353-5454 or email at the contact address below.