You Could Make this Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith. In 2018, Maggie Smith, a poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio, had a very terrible evening. Her husband had just returned from a business trip, and the feeling she’d had that something was off between them felt like a siren. So she did that shameful act,…
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What is the story arc in Michelle Miller’s Belonging? Every memoir has a story arc (also called a narrative arc) or theme an author explores regarding her challenges and growth. Accordingly, she recounts events that have happened, decisions she’s made, her thoughts and feelings, and growing self-awareness to share what she’s learned about herself and…
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TALKING TO MY ANGELS, a memoir by Melissa Etheridge As a certified ghostwriter specializing in women’s memoirs, each evening, I spend my final hour or so reading another delectable memoir. I especially love those narrative arcs where the author reflects on the trials and tribulations of motherhood. TALKING TO MY ANGELS by Melissa Etheridge is the…
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A LIVING REMEDY, a memoir by Nicole Chung As a ghostwriter specializing in women’s memoirs and an adoptive mom, I enjoyed writing former Miss Deaf America and adoptive mom Brandi Rarus’s memoir entitled Finding Zoe. An avid reader of women’s memoirs, as well, I especially enjoy adoptees’ stories. A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung is…
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I just finished, “I Am Debra Lee” by Debra Lee. What a gem of a story and an example of a good memoir! What a brave, brilliant woman, so brutally honest about her fears and coping mechanisms she relied on to thrive in the corporate workplace. The CEO of BET Debra’s story about her rise…
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Tell Me Everything, a Memoir by Minka Kelly. As a ghostwriter who specializes in women’s memoirs, you’ll usually find me curled up, at night, reading one. I can’t get my hands on enough of them; in addition to honing my craft, each women’s memoir I read reconfirms the power of storytelling. When we discover how…
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I just finished The Critic’s Daughter, by Pricilla Gillman—yet another example of how reading about another women’s life teaches me so much about my own. Like the author, having grown up in New York City, I deeply resonated with her intimate father/daughter tale—one so influenced by art, theatre, and writing. When she describes her enchantment…
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The more I read women’s memoirs, the more I realize the inner strength it takes to actually rise above our challenges, whatever they may be. Yet when we heal ourselves, we shine a light for those around us, and out into the world. Tarana Burke’s journey of self-acceptance and healing, told in, “Unbound,” is no…
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All great memoirs have something in common. Whatever the story—whether the author has climbed the Himalayas or plunged deep into despair, or both—their passion to make their experience known is so palpable, you can practically hold it in your hands. Like an invisible thread lingering, it thrums, “I must tell you what happened … what…
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As a women’s memoirist, I read a lot of memoirs. Ashley Ford’s powerhouse tale is the latest. Here’s the beauty of simple, straightforward writing catapulting us into deeply-bruised places. Feelings of not belonging, being valued or seen. While sharing astounding self-awareness and inner strength. Exactly how does a child (and then grown woman)…
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