by SDMWA | Jul 8, 2019 | Meeting Recaps
The June 2019 San Diego Memoir Association monthly meeting was the second of two free meetings this year. Expert facilitator Marni Freedman led the thirty-five attendees through a process for healing through writing. She previewed material from her forthcoming book...
by SDMWA | Jul 4, 2019 | Member Profiles
SJF: How/When did you discover SDMWA? Tell us about your involvement. CJP: I discovered SDMWA through the ray of sunshine, Marni Freedman, at the Scripps Library. I saw a library posting that said, An Overview of Memoir Writing. I had been thinking about writing my...
by SDMWA | Jun 5, 2019 | Member Profiles
SJF: How/When did you discover SDMWA? Tell us about your involvement. LO: I discovered SDMWA in February of 2017 when I took my very first memoir class with Marni Freedman. At first, I did it as a self-discovery and healing practice but eventually I wanted to take...
by SDMWA | Apr 30, 2019 | Experts on Memoir, Memoir Talk
Written by Madonna Treadway Studying the Research A few years ago, while doing research for my book 6 Healing Questions, A Gentle Path to Facing Childhood Loss of a Parent, I began studying the leading thinkers on grief and loss. I was hoping to find a clearly defined...
by SDMWA | Apr 30, 2019 | Member Profiles
SJF: Congratulations on being selected as the SDMWA ‘Member of the Month’! How and when did you discover SDMWA? Please tell us about your involvement. DR: I was involved as a member since the beginning, I think. After finishing Marni Freedman’s Memoir...
by SDMWA | Apr 4, 2019 | Member Profiles
San Diego Memoir Writers Association is pleased to present our April Member of the Month. Read a Q & A Interview below with Madonna Treadway, & Susan J. Farese, SJF Communications SJF: How did you discover the San Diego Memoir Writers Association...
by SDMWA | Mar 7, 2019 | Meeting Recaps
March 2, 2019. The San Diego Memoir Association’s monthly meeting featured Jeniffer Thompson of Monkey C Media, giving an engaging talk about Author Branding. “Personal branding is a combination of authority, personal style, and visibility—it’s your reputation,”...
by SDMWA | Mar 5, 2019 | Member Profiles
San Diego Memoir Writers Association is pleased to present our first Member of the Month. For March 2019, we present Patricia Frank. Read a Q & A Interview below with Patricia M. Frank, Journals For Foster Youth Program & Susan J. Farese, SJF Communications...
by Jeniffer Thompson | Jan 9, 2018 | Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Memoir Talk
Self-publishing success stories: 1931 – Irma Rombauer paid a printer to print her book, The Joy of Cooking – now published by Simon and Schuster and has sold 18 million copies. 1993 – James Redfield originally self-published The Celestine Prophecy,...
by Guest Writer | Oct 12, 2017 | Experts on Memoir, Memoir Talk
Anyone who writes memoir knows it’s a genre that asks a lot. If you’re doing it right, it asks that you expose yourself completely, that you revisit—if not relive—painful memories, and that you be fully transparent, inviting readers into the most intimate corners of...
