The Stories To Tell website contains over 40 articles designed to help authors to create memoir and family history books. They include topics in 11 categories including:

Getting Started

About Memoirs

Plan Your Book

Author’s Craft

Editors and Editing

Memories and Recall

Family History

Collaborate

Publishing

Book Production

Photos and Illustrations

Beginning next week the blog will highlight three of these articles each week. If you want to take a look before our series begins, check them out by clicking here: Articles for Authors . We hope you’ll find them interesting and helpful. Let us know what you think.

If you’re a new visitor to the Stories To Tell blog, we welcome you. We’ve organized this blog into categories similar to those introduced in the articles we make available on our website as “author resources”.  Topics include:

• Getting Started on Your Book
  

  Stories To Tell produces professional quality memoirs and family history books for aspiring authors.

• About Memoirs and Personal History Books
• Planning Your Book’s Contents
• The Author’s Craft
• Storytelling, Oral History, and Recording Stories
• Editors and Editing
• Memory Work: Recall, Reflect, and Relive
• Family History Research and Preservation
• Collaboration
• About Publishing
• Book Design and Book Production Technology
• Incorporating Photographs and Illustrations

We’re interested in exploring all topics about creating books, the challenges that face authors, and the possibilities for producing excellent books. If there’s a topic or question that interests you, let us know!

-Nancy Barnes, Managing Editor