MemoirsWriting a memoir can wear you down physically and emotionally, even decades after the events. A client who had to stop three chapters in, my own experience, and how to protect yourself.
MemoirsAlmost every memoir writer is afraid of being judged. I mailed a 2,000-page autobiography to twelve relatives and my father told them all to burn it. Here's what I learned about writing the truth anyway.
GhostwritingIf you're an adult, publishing your ghostwritten memoir is your decision. The question is how much of a family blow-up you can take, and how a ghostwriter can reduce the legal and personal damage.
GhostwritingA ghostwriter can turn the stories of everyone who knew a person into a tribute book. Richard Lowe explains how a tribute book differs from a eulogy or obituary, what the family needs to gather, and why the flaws belong…
GhostwritingA musician's memoir is just another memoir, with two traps: the people still around to read it, and lyrics you don't control anymore. A ghostwriter who knows memoir handles both.
GhostwritingA pilot's memoir is just another memoir, except that other pilots will read it and catch every wrong radio call. A ghostwriter who learns your aircraft and a chapter-by-chapter accuracy review keep the book credible.
GhostwritingA whistleblower memoir is just another memoir, with far more legal exposure. Talk to an employment lawyer about NDAs, pending cases and your protections before the first interview, then tell the story fairly.
GhostwritingAn immigrant's crossing belongs on paper before the last person who remembers it is gone. A ghostwriter can work through a translator and the family's records to write it, whether the story is yours or your grandmother's.
GhostwritingIf you want to write about losing someone to suicide, a ghostwriter can help you do it with care. Build the book around the person and the life you've lived since, keep the method off the page, and take the…
GhostwritingWriting a memoir about depression or mental illness can do you real good, and a ghostwriter takes the blank page off your hands. Pace the interviews to your health, keep your therapist in the loop, and decide early how much…
GhostwritingParents of children with special needs carry knowledge the next family desperately needs. A ghostwriter can turn it into a memoir that protects your child's privacy, respects an adult child's consent, and fits around the realities of caregiving.
GhostwritingInfertility and adoption stories rarely get told at the dinner table, and a memoir is where they belong. A ghostwriter can help you write one while protecting your partner, the birth parents and the child at the center of it.
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