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Raised in Ruins: a memoir of adventures growing up in wild Alaska

Posted on April 19, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

Tara Neilson lives off the scenic Inner Passage of Southeast Alaska, but nowhere where you’d be able to find her—she’s off grid. Frighteningly off grid, to me, but she was raised out there along with her sister and three brothers. … Continue reading →

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Memoir Voice: Keeping the ghost out of ghostwriting

Posted on October 6, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Are you writing or editing someone else’s memoir? I am celebrating after finishing the difficult editing of an ESOL memoir. ESOL means English as Second or Other Language, and in this case it might be a fourth language out of … Continue reading →

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Memoir: Writing the past imperfect

Posted on July 7, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Is your past perfect? Of course not, and that just means you’ve had a life. That’s the stuff some really good memoirs are made of. Even if we don’t have big stories of past troubles, we are not perfect, and … Continue reading →

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