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Sonia Marsh tells all about paradise in Freeways to Flip-Flops memoir

Posted on September 30, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

Have you ever dreamed of getting away from it all? Leaving the rat race, retiring somewhere where the breeze is gentle off the ocean and time stands still? Sonia Marsh did it. She and her husband plucked up their boys … Continue reading →

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A Study for Memoir Writers: Night by Elie Wiesel should have been darker

Posted on October 16, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Finally, I have read Elie Wiesel’s famous memoir Night, his harrowing story of survival through several WWII Nazi concentration camps. How interesting that no publisher wanted the 245-page memoir (originally titled And the World Remained Silent) because it was too … Continue reading →

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The 2011 bad first line contest winners and your memoir

Posted on July 31, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

The Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest winners for 2011 have been chosen, and the grand prize inflictor’s entry is rather disgusting. There was no memoir category (what!?), but the winner’s entry will do. This contest picks the worst first line of a (fake) novel … Continue reading →

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