I have just pre-ordered a book called Having The Last Say – Capturing Your Legacy In One Small Story, by Alan Gelb. The author offers to explain how to write short personal narratives that serve as a powerful form of life review. I think it sounds fascinating and I can’t wait to read it. I […]
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Goodbye Joanie
One of the first authors to contact me when I began my business three years ago was a lady called Joan. She wanted me to write her memoirs and give them to her family when she died. No one had asked me to do that before, nor have they since, but as time went on […]
All The World’s A Stage – Guest Post
On July 9, I launched the memoir of nonangenarian authors, Peggie and Mollie Bensaid – The Bensaid Twins. Their book, All The World’s A Stage, demanded such an event not least because of their extraordinary collection of theatrical memorabilia spanning a career of 70 years. They are pictured above with one of their original costumes. […]
The Whitstable MemMap Project – WhitLit Wants Your Stories
As you may know, I am the Memoir Director of WhitLit, a new literary festival coming to Whitstable from May 8-11, 2014. Here’s a full programme of events. During WhitLit our authors will be telling us some great stories. But we know that Whitstable has its own stories to tell. And that’s why I’ve launched […]
Your Memoir Gift Voucher – The Gift That Gives Forever
I’ve been thinking recently about how we choose which memories to remember. Why we remember what we do, what we don’t forget and how these choices lead us to create the memoirs we write. I’m sure it’s not a conscious choice, so maybe choice is the wrong word. After all, plenty of us remember things […]
Happy 2nd Anniversary (and a very jolly video!)
Hard as it is for me to believe, Your Memoir is two years old this month, August 2013. Yay! You can never be complacent when you run your own business but *touches wood* I couldn’t be happier. I am busy, people are finding me. I seem to be offering something that people want and need. […]
Exciting Announcement
In my last post I mentioned that I was to have a role in WhitLit, Whitstable’s first literary festival, taking place in 2014… I can now reveal that, thrillingly, I am the festival’s Memoir Director! To say I am excited is an understatement. I am working with founder and co-director Victoria Falconer (formerly Annable), a […]
My Week – Memoirs and Secrets
I am currently ghostwriting for nine authors and this week, I worked with three of them. On Tuesday, I met a woman in her 30s. We’ve just started on her memoir – a life full of secrets. Her book will be 60,000-80,000 words and everyone of them jaw-dropping… On Wednesday I met a chap in […]
You Can Find Memoirs Everywhere
You can! It’s true! In February I was the memoirist-in-residence at GEEK2013, a gaming event in marvellous Margate, Kent. I spent three days there digging for memoirs and here are some I found. Where there are people, there are memoirs… “In 1978 I used to bunk off school to play Space Invaders at my mate’s […]
Whitstable Memoirs
Happy New Year to you all! I made a few resolutions and one of them was to blog once a month, so here we go for January with news of a very exciting event… From January 12 to 27, 2013, Whitstable’s Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre is being turned into a Time Travel Tourist Information […]
Dear Marnie
Marnie was exactly the person we needed. Eric had written his memoir but it needed a thoughtful, expert edit and a bit of tidying. She was meticulous and sensitive in her reading and suggestions; also her enthusiasm for his writing and her understanding were so encouraging. She then steered us to just the right people to see it through and…
Wake Up Little Suzy Marnie – a trusted friend. I chose Marnie to help me with my first memoir back in 2017. My book had some very sensitive content. Marnie ensured I was kept ‘safe’ from any potential legal fall out. I felt confident that I was in the hands of selfless wisdom. She knows her subject intimately. Seven years…
When the Window Closes: What I learned caring for my mom while she was alive and dying I don’t know what to say except that Marnie is THE BEST! I found her in the acknowledgments a friend wrote in his memoir, and I messaged him to ask about her. He could not say enough good things, so I reached out to…
Marnie helped me dive deep and made sure my readers could understand where my character and the other characters were coming from. Most importantly, she helped me deliver the best memoir I could. For that I am very grateful and would suggest and recommend her to anyone who is looking to build something that they want and to have her…
