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About moonbridgebooks

Co-author of Cherry Blossoms in Twilight, a WWII Japan memoir of her mother's childhood; author of Poems That Come to Mind, for caregivers of dementia patients; Co-author/Editor of Battlefield Doc, a medic's memoir of combat duty during the Korean War; life writing enthusiast; loves history and culture, poetry, and cats

Slices of Life memoir writing with Cheryl Stahle

Posted on July 15, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

I invited freelance writer Cheryl Butler Stahle to guest post on my blog today about how she found her passion for memoir. I discovered Cheryl on memoir-writer Sonia Marsh’s Gutsy Indie Publishers Facebook group, an informative and supportive group for … Continue reading →

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Searching for Jane, Finding Myself: a memoir by an adopted child

Posted on July 8, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

In a recent posting, I mused about a comment a young lady made to me about five years ago. She said she was adopted, so she didn’t have any stories about her mother. I said she had a mother whose … Continue reading →

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Tips for Writing Your Memoir by Marion Woodfork Simmons

Posted on July 1, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

For this week’s post I have found a gem of an article on Kathy Hansen’s Personal Storytelling news paper.li (a story-telling news aggregator I follow). Marion Woodfork Simmons, of Woodfork Genealogy, has a gem of a blog post from June 24, Telling … Continue reading →

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