Category Archives: memoir writing

Breaking the Code: A father-daughter memoir of WWII

Posted on December 4, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Karen Fisher-Alaniz discovered a secret. On her father’s 81st birthday, he handed her a stack of letters he had written to his parents when he served in WWII. She had heard some old war stories, but they didn’t explain why … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo for nonfiction

Posted on November 4, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

In case you haven’t heard the commotion, November is National Novel Writing Month, where thousands of writers around the world are working and worrying themselves to peck or scratch out 50,000 words of story by the end of the month. … Continue reading →

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Memoirs and Steve Jobs tributes need to be realistic

Posted on October 7, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Steve Jobs was brilliant, pushing the innovation envelope to bring us all sorts of fast and fun toys that happened to also be great for business, but he was also a driven man not always pleasant to be around. With … Continue reading →

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