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Book signing photos

From Book Signing Event, posted by Linda Joy Myers on 3/10/2010 (4 items) Betsy, Linda Joy and Dianne My agent, Verna Dreibach Alan Rinzler from Jossey Bass Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(function(){ jQuery(".gallery-icon a").lightBox({ ... [Read more...]

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Power of Memoir Blog Tour

I’m so pleased to announce on International Women’s Day that I’m on some blog tours right now with my book The Power of Memoir. There are a lot of great questions and interview at Women on Writing and Women’s Memoirs. People are stopping by to comment, to leave a question, and so far I’m keeping up with them! The blog tour... [Read more...]

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The Personal History of a Book’s Life—The Power of Memoir

My newest book The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story has just been released by Jossey-Bass. I’m thrilled about this, because the road to getting to a large publisher has been long and confusing. Often I had to traverse through unknown terrains to get where I am now: holding a brand new copy of my book. The cover is soft and silky,... [Read more...]

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Story Circle Conference—post conference highs, creativity in motion

Meeting Heather Cariou, the keynote speaker for the first time. She slipped into the café and was sitting alone. I only knew her from her photograph, but I knew it was Heather. I had read her memoir Sixty Five Roses, and felt that I knew her in some ways at least, as I think we all feel when we are invited into someone’s life through words. And we... [Read more...]

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The Power of Memoir Writing

The title of my newly released book The Power of Memoir feels muscular and, well, powerful to me.  I find myself thinking about what this power is, the power of memoir writing, and then I’m floating back in my mind to all the workshops I have taught, to the moments when I’ve sat enthralled with the story the person is reading. Often they... [Read more...]

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13 Reasons to Write a Healing Memoir

We all know that writing our personal stories is a challenge–of heart, mind, and body. To wrestle with truth, history, and memory requires us to be brave as we dare to speak out after years of silence. For some, there is the sound of trumpets as the feeling of freedom and fullness of open up through the writing. For others, they hear the voice... [Read more...]

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The Power of Memoir is on Kindle!

Surprise, surprise. I just discovered that Kindle already has my new book. No yet officially released, it’s available already on Kindle! The wonders of the digital world! So now people are buying it, downloading it and writing me–this is great. No matter how many times a writer gets published, there is the thrill of knowing that your words... [Read more...]

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Writing Retreat

It was a pristine weekend in the Napa Valley as we gathered for my 10th annual Harvest Your Wisdom Retreat. The rain follwed by sun made the drive through the valley inspiring–how to describe such beauty? What “sensual details” would a writer use? See, I can’t stop being a writer even while driving! We began with an exercise... [Read more...]

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In the golden vineyards of Napa Valley

Today I’m starting the 10th year of my retreat in Calistoga, in the heart of the Napa Valley. The drive from the SF Bay Area to the valley was full of different kinds of weather, from the soft, pillowy clouds of a rainy autumn afternoon to the delights of sun on crimson, amber, and golden leaves of the vines as they bid goodbye to the harvest... [Read more...]

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Writing Your Memoir–Using Scenes to Bring Your Story to Life

Today at the National Association of Memoir Writers we hosted Jordan Rosenfeld, Author of Make a Scene, and an editor at Writers Digest. She enthralled a large audience of memoir writers as she stressed the importance of using scenes–going beyond simply narrating a story to bringing the reader into your memory piece through scenes. [Read more...]  Read More →

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