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Book signing photos

March 10, 2010 by LJM  
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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

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Story Circle Conference—post conference highs, creativity in motion

February 12, 2010 by LJM  
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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 [...]

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

October 24, 2009 by LJM  
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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.

Writing to Find Your Voice, Writing to Heal

May 16, 2009 by LJM  
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Writing heals! When you take out a notebook and pen to write about your feelings or life events, you may not realize that you’re taking an important step in creating good health—not only emotionally but physically. According to research by Dr. James Pennebaker and others about how writing heals, writing not only heals trauma and [...]

Memoir Writing and Ethics

March 16, 2009 by LJM  
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As you bring your memoir into the world to share it with family and friends or to publish it, ethical issues arise that need to be resolved. Think about the issues that concern you after you have written a few drafts of your family stories. Did you reveal any family secrets, or expose any subjects [...]

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