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It’s Not the Pulitzer but It’s Still Good -Foreword Indies Finalist
Amazon’s recent efforts to discourage warehouse workers from joining a union in Bessemer, Alabama, has sparked renewed interest in this country’s many battles between powerful corporations ...
A Cool Glass of Water
Good News from a Distant Land This lockdown is getting me down. I’m fighting the effects. I call my friends, I do Zoom, I keep in ...
The Shot Caller by Casey Diaz with Mike Yorkey
For too many years, Christian memoirs have been written with the sympathies of the readers more in mind than the experiences of the writer. The gritty ...
American Dirt and the Social Novel
I finally got around to reading American Dirt. Authors can only dream in their most optimistic moments of getting the accolades this book has received. Stephen ...
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Lifelines from the Past
You are not alone if you’re finding it difficult to concentrate. In various ways, the virus has all of us by the throats. One of my ...
The Quintessential Historical Novel — Fall of Giants
My all-time favorite historical novel is Fall of Giants. If there is a quintessential book that sets a high bar for what historical novels can achieve, ...
Historical Novel set during Cesar Chavez Grape Strike -The Road to Delano
My historical novel set in Delano during the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez is about personal heroism over political convenience, moral choices that run against ...
Writing a Memoir: How to Use Story Arcs to Write Your Story–Part Two
Using Story Arcs in Writing a Memoir As a ghostwriter, I’m constantly asked, “Where do I begin the story of my life? So much has happened to ...
Writing a Memoir Using Story Arcs
John DeSimone is a personal memoir ghostwriter who explains the characteristics of memoirs that achieve commercial success in today’s crowded memoir market. If you are thinking of ...
Scrooge and The Art of Writing a Memoir
Before You Write A Memoir Take A Lesson From Scrooge A century or so before the modern memoir was born, a half century before Freud articulated ...