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Our next monthly Virtual Book Club discussion features Linda Gartz. She will be discussing Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago on August 9, 2018  at 4 pm PDT / 7 pm EDT.

Join us for our June member teleseminar featuring Sara Connell with How to Solve the Biggest Challenges in Memoir Writing on  July 27, 2018 at 11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT.

Barbie Beaton is this month’s featured member. She writes, “As a girl, Barbie’s world was charged with rivalry between her two sisters for attention from parents too broke and overwhelmed to notice.”

Your Story Matters. Be Brave. Persist.

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<p class=”ptrunc”>Author: Denis Ledoux Writing another person’s memoir can be called writing biography rather than memoir. You are, after all, not the subject. But, are there occasions when a biography can…</p>

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