Memoirs – Page 7

The Art of Trapeze: One Woman’s Journey of Soaring, Surrendering, and Awakening by Molly McCord @MoxieMollyM

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What inspired you to write your memoir?
Inspiration for “The Art of Trapeze” came from the fact that it is empowering to hear stories of people following their hearts and taking a risk. We all need to hear those messages, I believe, because it brings us back to ourselves and what we can create in our lives. If anything is possible, what do you choose? What do you want your life to include? What calls to your soul and lifts you up?

I love travel stories as I’ve always been a traveler, so it was thrilling – and scary – to write about my own adventures. In the beginning of the writing process, I had an inner struggle around opening up and being vulnerable with what to share. But I believe only confident people can be strong in their vulnerability, and that’s where I write from: a place of self-love and strength. Life is made up of stories, so I hope my single contribution inspires others to open up and share their story, too.

About your Book:
Here’s the back cover, third-person synopsis:

“On a random Thursday morning, with nothing to lose and only a dream to gain, Molly McCord decides to move to Paris, France to follow the courageous call of her heart. She arrives in a city she has never visited before and where she knows no one, yet she trusts her ability to figure it out because her adventurous life has prepared her for this biggest of leaps. She carries the wisdom of Solitude, Strength, Style, Flexibility, Heart, Endurance, and Grace in her non-matching luggage collection.

Molly’s soul-riveting experiences unfold in surprising ways as she discovers the joys and realities of life as a foreigner in France, falls in love with a sexy Turkish man, moves her cats across the Atlantic, enjoys the rare opportunity of working for a U.S. Ambassador, and creates the life of her dreams in less than two years.

Yet when unexpected developments require her to surrender once again, a higher consciousness catches her with a deeper spiritual awakening.

The Art of Trapeze soars with emotional honesty, delightful humor, unexpected wisdom, and inspiring spiritual perspectives around living life to the fullest when nothing is guaranteed except gravity.”

How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
I self-published in order to have complete creative control, yet I brought in professionals for editing and cover design to ensure all of my books are top-quality experiences for readers. I also had early-readers provide feedback and critique so I wouldn’t become a “self-publishing island”, so to speak! I enjoy the full process of creating a book and find it invigorating, so it is a wonderful time to be an indie author.

How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
Obviously it is a more personal experience, but I was surprised by what I realized and discovered along the way. There’s something about putting yourself on paper that changes your perspective, and I see this as a positive thing. I actually prefer writing in the third-person, so switching to first-person requires you to hone in on who you really are in the story. Plus, I love the long-term perspective that some day my grandkids will be able to read this story and it won’t get lost in the family legacy (hopefully, ha!).

Author Bio:
Molly McCord, M.A., is a bestselling author, astrologer, and modern spiritual teacher with no religious affiliations. Her debut memoir, The Art of Trapeze: One Woman’s Journey of Soaring, Surrendering, and Awakening, hit #1 in 2 Amazon categories within 3 days. The Art of Trapeze is the first book in her Awakening Consciousness Series, followed by The Modern Heroine’s Journey of Consciousness, in which she integrates Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey with spiritual growth. Molly released five books in 2013, including her contribution to the bestselling The Thought That Changed My Life Forever where she was published alongside such luminaries as Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Bernie Siegel.

Often referred to as a Consciousness Catalyst, Molly’s popular website, www.ConsciousCoolChic.com was nominated by Intent.com for Best Spirituality Website in 2011. Her weekly radio show attracted over 70,000 downloads in the first year.

Molly has a B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy as a formal channel for understanding Global Consciousness with a Jungian perspective. She is TESOL certified and volunteers her time teaching English to college-level international students.

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Author Home Page Link
Link To Book On Amazon
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Your Social Media Links
http://www.facebook.com/Conscious.Cool.Chic
http://twitter.com/MoxieMollyM
http://www.pinterest.com/mollymccord/

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The Spoon From Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands by Judith Fein

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What inspired you to write your memoir?
Ever since childhood, my life has been a detective story as I tried to solve the mystery of who I am and who came before me. No one in my family was talking. The less they told me, the more I wanted to know. When I finally went to the land of my ancestors, it all became clear. I had to write the book.

About your Book:
My grandmother came from a tiny dot on the map named Minkowitz. All she told me were six tiny facts, six clues to the life she left behind. All my life, I pursued those six facts. Everyone rolled their eyes at my obsession with Minkowitz. But when I found out that my fiancé came from the same speck of land, the same village, I knew I was destined to find it and go there. What happened to me in Minkowitz changed my life, my marriage, and set me on a path to encourage others to solve the mystery of where they come from, who they love, and, ultimately, who they are.

How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
My first two books were published by traditional publishers. Two years ago, my last publisher went out of business. i was on the road, teaching and giving talks. There was no time to find another publisher, so I published it myself. I sold a lot of books. So this time I decide to self-publish from the get-go. I used createspace, kindle, and smash words. When I say “I,” I mean that I hired people to do the hands-on publishing, design the cover, etc.

How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
The other genres I write with my heart and my head. This one, I wrote with my guts. It is as honest, as close-to-the-bone, as funny, as sad as I can possibly be.

Author Bio:
Judith Fein is an award-winnig travel journalist who has contributed to 105 international publications. She is the author of the new book, The Spoon from Minkowitz, and Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel. Judith blogs for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and is the co-founded and executive editor of the popular group website, www.YourLifeisaTrip.com. She is an acclaimed keynote speaker and workshop leader, and recently gave a TEDx talk about Deep Travel:

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Confessions of a Paris Party Girl by Vicki Lesage @vickilesage

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Wine, romance, and French bureaucracy – the ups and downs of an American’s life in Paris. This laugh-out-loud memoir is almost too funny to be true!

Drinking too much bubbly. Meeting sappy Frenchmen who have girlfriends or are creeps or both. Encountering problème after problème with French bureaucracy. When newly-single party girl Vicki moved to Paris, she was hoping to taste wine, stuff her face with croissants, and maybe fall in love.

In her first book, this long-time blogger and semi-professional drinker recounts the ups and downs of her life in Paris. Full of sass, shamefully honest admissions, and situations that seem too absurd to be true, Vicki makes you feel as if you’re stumbling along the cobblestones with her.

Will she find love? Will she learn to consume reasonable amounts of alcohol? Will the French administration ever cut her a break?

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
In a lot of ways I think it’s easier to write a memoir because I know the characters, setting, and plot already. However, I have to be able to look at my life as an outsider to be sure my story is interesting and relatable to those who don’t know me. It’s not always easy to be objective!

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Write at least a little every day. Then edit and rewrite and edit again. Then hire a professional editor to put that extra polish on your masterpiece.

Author Bio:
Vicki Lesage is an IT Director by day, writer by night. And a full-time nerd. She loves fondue, wine, math, and zombies. She lives in Paris with her French husband and rambunctious son.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
After years of people commenting on my blog that I should write a book, I finally took the plunge and wrote a memoir about my experiences as an American living in Paris – with all its ups and downs!

Website(s)
Author Home Page Link
Link To Buy Confessions of a Paris Party Girl On Amazon

Social Media:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20521413-confessions-of-a-paris-party-girl
http://www.facebook.com/vickilesagewriter
http://www.twitter.com/vickilesage
http://www.pinterest.com/vickilesage

Listening to our Grandmothers by Mary Ann Mhina

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Listening to our Grandmothers is a new collection of wonderful stories from real women, which warm you up inside. These five inspiring women have lived through seven decades during which the world has changed beyond our imagining. In Listening to our Grandmothers Mhina presents the stories of five grandmothers and in doing so not only illuminates individual lives lived through a period of transformational social change but also highlights timeless wisdom offering us hope for the future. This little book will bring you home to the wise elder in you.

Targeted Age Group:: 20-50

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I think the focus on ordinary older women’s stories and drawing out the inspiration and wisdom from them. This book is meant to make you think about the stories of the older women you know as well as tell the stories of these five women’s lives.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
If you can teach yourself a daily writing practice you are 80% of the way towards competing your first book. Creating the practice and structure needed to keep writing and working on your draft until you are happy with it is absolutely the difference between a writer and someone with a great idea for a book who never finishes it!

Author Bio:
Mary Ann Mhina was born in Berkshire and grew up in South Oxfordshire. She has since lived in Zimbabwe, Scotland, Tanzania and South and East London. Her interest in life stories began when, as a graduate researcher at Goldsmiths University she began to investigate the stories that mentally ill people told about their own lives. A year of listening to their stories in villages and health facilities in Tanzania convinced Mary Ann that there was much wisdom to be found in all of our stories. She is now an anthropologist, writer and facilitator with a passion for telling stories and asking questions that help us to think and feel differently about our own lives. Listening to our Grandmothers is her first book.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
This book started from a realisation I had that older women’s stories were often neglected and ignored and that we fail so often to listen to the wisdom of our Grandmothers. As a result I was inspired to spend quality time with five inspiring older women and record their stories for this book which aims to present snap shots of their lives.

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Author Home Page Link
Link To Buy Listening to our Grandmothers On Amazon

Social Media:
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http://twitter.com/maryannmhina
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Scott by Tommie @TOMMIESCOTT

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What inspired you to write your memoir?
As a ex gang-banger from Los Angeles for 16 years, and knowing that in our country we have about 15,000 murders a year mostly black kids, that’s like 5 Sept 11s a year. With the US being the capital of drug addicts & alcoholics, also the porn capital, and holding 25% of the worlds jail population. This became a deep burden for me, because I lost 30 friends to violence, and babies are being killed daily, I had to write my story to show that there is hope, and redemption, for those stuck in darkness.

About your Book:
– Innovo Publishing, LLC released a new Christian title, The Tommie Scott Story, written by Tommie Scott. With Jesus, there is always hope, no matter how bad things are. The Tommie Scott Story is a true story—a true love story—but not of the usual variety.

This is a story of a gangbanger, drug dealer, and “hit man” who worked his way through the juvenile reform system and into a California state prison by age twenty. It’s the story of an angry young criminal with no remorse and no hope. And it’s here—in the depths of hopeless darkness—that this story begins again. It begins again with a humble, gray-haired man who was not ashamed to be a servant and to share the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes. It begins again with a new birth—a spiritual rebirth into God’s family through Jesus Christ. And it continues today with a repentant and joyful servant—a dedicated soldier for Christ—whose true story affirms God’s Word that says, “… neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38, NIV).

How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
I decided to go the traditional route, and after over a hundred rejections, Innovo Publishing teamed up with me to impact millions of lives.

Author Bio:
Tommie Scott is former gang member and now born-again believer in Jesus Christ. He is an author, advocate for at-risk youth, a chaplain for the Las Vegas Community Gang Task Force, and a dedicated witness and soldier for Christ. Tommie is a native of Southern California. He grew up in poverty and was introduced to drugs, alcohol, and gangs as a pre-teen. The juvenile justice system, and later the California Department of Corrections, became his home. By God’s grace, Tommie was introduced to Jesus Christ through a faithful Christian prison ministry. Just like Paul’s dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, God changed Tommie’s heart and life forever during a prison Bible study. Tommie is now living and doing good works in Christ in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, Rache’t, and their five children.

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Author Home Page Link
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