What is your book about? It’s about my coming of age immigration with my family from Beirut, Lebanon to the United States when I was fourteen years old. The news I’ll be traveling to America excited me to no end. What I didn’t realize when my parents told us we’ll be coming to America, was with limited English skills, it was going to be a tough road for me. I struggled as I … [Read more...]
Neill McKee – Finding Myself in Borneo
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man’s adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local … [Read more...]
Jane T. Bertrand – You Started WHAT After 60? Highpointing Across America
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. You Started WHAT after 60? Highpointing across America Searching for a challenge when I turned age 60, I decided to climb one mountain in every state – before realizing that “highpointing“ exists as a pastime, with its own club, foundation, annual convention, and website. My strategic error was to start with the easy … [Read more...]
Catherine Spitale – The Mayor, The Mob & Me
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. . It’s a novel about being born into an Italian family with Mafia connections, and my search for my true identity. I have red hair and blue eyes, I knew there was more to my heritage than my Italian parents. I explain the search and my conclusion that my famous biological father may have never even known I was born. … [Read more...]
Jo Ann Simon – Rose Colored Glasses
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. “Rose Colored Glasses” A Memoir of Love, Loss and Hope is my debut book. Life was the best it could be for Jo Ann Simon. She was happily divorced, with a wonderful job, two children and a full enjoyable life. Then she met Tom. He said when he first saw her that he would spend the rest of his life with her. To her … [Read more...]
Pamela Jane – An Incredible Talent for Existing
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My new memoir, , is set in 1965, the era of love, light—and revolution. While I (the twenty-two year old romantic narrator), fanaticize a bucolic future in an old farm house with children climbing the apple trees, my husband plots to organize a revolution and fight a guerrilla war in the Catskills. Our fantasies were on … [Read more...]
Mixing Fact and Fiction: A Romance/Memoir Not in Standard Form
Every writer learns to take that leap of faith and believe in her own creative expression, a way to tell a story that is true and compelling. A Portrait of Love and Honor is that sort of book…a marriage of fact and fiction; a memoir within the framework of a novel. I wanted to write a love story – two people who find in each other their dreams come true. Just as happens in real … [Read more...]
David Kalish – The Opposite of Everything
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My novel, , which just came out. It’s a comic fictional twist on my personal struggles with cancer and divorce, to treatment and renewal. A zany romance about the things that break our hearts -- cancer, crazy families, busted dreams -- and the things that sustain us: love and second chances Took me thirteen years to … [Read more...]
Faye Thomas, M.Div – The Children of God
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Many teenagers and young adults will be introduced to religious cults during our generation. They will have to make the decision whether or not to join. Cults approach their victims by highlighting the supposed attributes of their organizations - communal living with shared financial responsibilities, greater … [Read more...]
My Memoir Workbook
This memoir workbook demonstrates the importance of writing your story; it also gives you the tools and guidance you need to do it. Work at your own pace and say what you want to say in your own words. This is your book, designed to tell about your life in your own voice. The workbook provides you with inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to finish the task. Writing … [Read more...]