JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR BUSINESS helps Memoir Professionals-people who teach, coach, edit, ghostwrite memoirs-to establish sound business practices so that they will be able to continue in this important work while reaping the financial and emotional rewards it offers.Denis Ledoux's extensive experience with memoir work is featured throughout this book. A must-read for aspiring Memoir Professionals.Becoming a memoir professional requires that you establish sound business practices. If you do so, you will continue in this important work for years to come and reap financial and emotional rewards. Many people who launch themselves in memoir work believe that a writing business is somehow different from other businesses. It is and it isn't.Our work is, of course, extremely personal. Relationships are primary. But... relationships in some form or other are primary to every business!In JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR BUSINESS, learn sound business practices and you will prosper. Ignore them and you will be saying: "Memoir work was loads of fun but you can't earn a living doing it." The choice is yours. I hope that you will choose, as I have, to prosper.The book contains a coupon code for substantial savings on The Memoir Network's Memoir Professional Package. With this package as your guide, you will be well on your way to a fulfilling and profitable Memoir Practice. YOU CAN LEARN TO WRITE FROM THE INSIDE OUTI believe in the power of telling our personal and family stories. These are our hero's journeys, and by telling them we honor ourselves and the people we have come from. An important early task for the writer is go inside and find the story that is worth telling. The story is not about "nice" words; it is about honest words, visceral words.LIFESTORIES FEED USStories have always played an important role in my life. I grew up in a three-generation home with paternal grandparents who lived upstairs. I heard tales of my extended family and their history recounted by the family storyteller, my grandmother Ledoux. These stories were a food for my soul. I could not get enough of them, and her gift to me was that she was a voluble, entertaining storyteller.I began writing as a short-story writer, drawing on family characters, settings, and stories for my fiction. In 1989, I won the Maine Fiction Award for Mountain Dance & Other Stories. My other titles include What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America (1988), and Lives in Translation: An Anthology of Contemporary Franco-American Writings (which I edited in 1990). In 1992, I published (and it is still in print) Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories; in 1996, The Photo Scribe / How to Tell the Stories Behind Your Photos; in 2009, The Consumer's Guide to Ghostwriting, in 2013, a memoir-We Were Not Spoiled. E-publication includes the books listed here in Smashwords as well as others.MAKING THE LEAP TO BECOMING A MEMOIR PROFESSIONALIt was a natural leap from my own family stories to helping others to record their stories in well-written accounts that apply all the techniques of fiction writing to autobiography, family reminiscence, and scrapbooking.In 1996, I was honored as Lifewriting Professional of the Year by the Association of Personal Historians.THE MEMOIR NETWORKToday, I continue to work as a writer, educator, teacher, autobiography co-author, memoir-writing coach, editor and publisher. I direct The Memoir Network, an international group of lifestory writing teachers who use my method and materials to lead the popular Turning Memories® and Photo Scribe® workshops and programs.My Memoir Network offers Memoir Professional Packages for individuals wishing to do what we call memoir work in their communities. [http://t...
