Serving veterans and getting their stories recorded, from the people doing that work.
NovemberKurt Vonnegut survived the firebombing of Dresden three stories underground and couldn't write about it for more than twenty years. When he did, he broke time apart to get there, and Slaughterhouse-Five still shows memoir writers how to approach what…
FamilyA ghostwriter can turn a veteran's, police officer's or firefighter's service into a memoir, even after the veteran has died. The interviews, the records that help, and when the manuscript needs a security review or a lawyer's read.
AI and Your CareerRetired Navy veteran and technology leader Jay Stifflemire on losing a contract two days before Christmas, founding a publishing company by January 2, and the memoir for his children that started it all.
Hiring a GhostwriterRetired generals, admirals and senior enlisted leaders write leadership books and memoirs, often with a professional collaborator. How a ghostwriter builds one, and what security review means for it.
Character DevelopmentA book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
HistoryFor thirty-six years the United States called 11 November Armistice Day. Then it became Veterans Day, and a specific moment gave way to a general one.
AmericaHe would talk about what happened to him. That was not the problem. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
FamilyYou want to know about the war, he said, making that familiar sucking sound through his teeth. It didn't start with Pearl Harbor for me.
MayMemorial Day is the last Monday in May. Why it honors those who served, including police and firefighters, and why their stories deserve to be recorded.
Authority Through AuthorshipIf you are a veteran, especially Vietnam- or Korea-era, the window for your memoir is closing faster than you think. Once you are gone, your children get fragments and your grandchildren get less than that. The memoir is what survives,…
Grief and LossA tribute to my grandfather, Frank Hoeffer, Navy cook and WWII prisoner of war for three years and four months. He came home and never let anyone leave hungry again.
FamilyMy first ghostwriting project was my grandfather's story, a WWII POW who survived. Why veterans' memoirs matter and how ghostwriting preserves them.
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