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Self Publishing Memoirs, Family Histories and Biography Books
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For people pulling together, penning and publishing life stories and family histories, motivation and aspiration run the gamut.
Whether it's the story of your family - intended for your family - or the important tale of a too often forgotten public figure - intended for a mass market - there is much to be learned from those who came before us.
Below are the real life self publishing experiences of biographers and memoirists. This is your chance to learn from recent history. You'll read about the successes and setbacks of people who did what you're trying to do.
Learn from history.
These self publishing stories are posted free for your use. All I ask is that you take the trouble to Rate and Comment on each account that you read. That way the more helpful accounts will rise to the top. After all, this is The SHARED Self Publishing Experience.
May you make history of your own!
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Publishers of Life Stories and Family Histories share their experience.
Giving my book away
If I'm expected to promote, why am I giving my book away?
I read everything I could find on getting published from the net and libraries. I accidently ...
I call it samizdat, not self-publishing
Originally, I thought the Plevitskaya story would make a good movie, but when I discovered how difficult it can be to sell a script to the movie industry,...
Finally! A book I can hold (and so can others)
After joining two writers' groups and attending every conference/seminar/workshop I could afford (including one-on-one 15-minute sessions with an agent,...
Self Publishing Autobiography
Self-publishing became a simple decision for me after exploring traditional publishing houses. I joyfully discovered a family connection with a successful ...
Self Publishing the Truth
When I finished "With Malice and Forethought" in 2000 and the proof reading was complete, all twenty-three people told me it had to be published. To make ...
Literary Destiny and the Beast
Despite an early break with a publishing house in 1996, legal complications and a car accident left me with a closed-head injury and utterly different ...
Reinventing Myself: Preserving and Sharing Some Chinese American History
In the not so distant past, it was almost impossible to publish a book without enduring a long, drawn out process of submitting manuscripts to numerous ...
Navigating The Publishing Trail
It took me four and a half years to write Vinyl Highway, a memoir of singing as rock duo Dick and Dee Dee in the Sixties. When I finally completed the ...
Remainder of My Life
I was lucky, because I had been in the advertising business, so I already knew an artist, and I had layout experience myself. So once my book was written ...
How can a blind guy write?
Being the author of two memoirs and having written many magazine articles, I'm occasionally asked by friends and acquaintances how I could have managed ...
Out of the Fire
Out of the Fire is a memoir about working my way through college by fighting fires for the Forest service. I worked on it for many years and it grew to ...
Publishing is a Maze
I am convinced that the greatest books that have ever been written, have never been published. Because of the difficulty in getting agents, publishers,...
A published author learns when and how to use Print-on-Demand publishing
I published five books before I wrote "Amy Utter's Journeys - TB and Other Tragedies in Rural America's Heartland." I had sold four to commercial publishers ...
iUniverse and Me
Writing and publishing a book remained low down on my "to do" list for a very long time until I heard about Print On Demand publishing as an option to ...
Required: Determination and Persistence
It wasn't my idea to write a book. Truly, I never considered myself a writer. But I do have an amazing story. So after a lot of prodding by others, I decided ...
POD Requires Focus and Grit
Self publishing is an adventure.
It can be as difficult as writing, and as rewarding. But the two activities are as different as can possibly be.
War ...
Slow Burn: Persistence, Patience & Marketing
Memoirs that emerge from tragedy are slow moving indeed. So many barriers have to be broken before the writer can expose all the hidden pain and detail ...
In My Mother's Words
In 1994, my then 78-year-old mother made the decision to retire from her third career in Denver, CO and relocate to Chandler, AZ to spend the remainder ...
Publishing my book
I get notions. When I get notions I like to follow where they lead. I never let sayers of "it can't be done" or "it is a waste of time" or "you are crazy"...
It's All Wrong, Yet It's All Write!
Publishers prefer to devote their resources to marketing established authors. Movie stars and mass murderers stand a chance with their ghosted stories,...
Sheer luck in writing and selling almost three thousand independently published copies
While recovering from a cancer operation in 2002 my visiting nurse told me some stories about her father's exploits as a teenager in German occupied Norway....
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My name is Nicholas P. Dennen. I am 30-years-old.
On September 27th, 1998, I was in a near-fatal accident after falling 35-feet into Chester Creek ...
Ya got money? Determination? Luck? Self-Publishing is for you.
After publishing 9 books with conventional publishers, I understood the industry's snobbish attitudes: good writers were published by conventional publishers....
Try Everything Once (at least) and Never Give Up!
I'm writing this on behalf of my husband, Georg Rauch, who lived just long enough to attend the local presentation of his war memoir, The Jew with the ...
Long Distance Love in Book Form
Everybody know that grandchildren are the reward for living long. Everybody also knows that grandchildren, like their parents, don't willingly listen to ...
Self publishing or death
I belong to a writer's group called Anthem Authors here in Henderson, Nevada. I have been keeping a journal for some twenty years and when I joined the ...
The Self-Publishing Venture
"Books don't make money." So said my teachers at UCLA, but I didn't believe them until I invested in the monetary sinkhole called self-publishing.
Why ...
The Journey
Wow, where do you start? For me, traditional means of publishing was never an option. I really wanted total control over the end product. I also wanted ...
Bringing the Orphan Train Experience Out of the Shadows
Everyone has a story to tell. Many of our older relatives lived through amazing, often unknown, periods of American history that today's youth find fascinating ...
All My Family's Interesting Scandals - Including the Weird Stuff in the Freezer
"Our Grandpa Was an Alien" started as a group of essays about growing up in my eccentric family that I wrote for the mil-blog "Sgt. Stryker's Daily Brief"...
Better than a shrink
In 1995 I was 25 years old and I received a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I received the TBI in a bicycle vs pick-up truck collision. It should not take ...
A home for Younger Brother
I can’t tell you how many times I started to write this memoir of my brother David and me growing up in Michigan and California. It took a close brush ...
There is no Shame in Self-Publishing!
I have self-published all 8 of my books, including my Dissertation and I am not the least embrassed. I tried the traditional publishers, but after 75 ...
Only When I Talk
As a very young child, I often wondered why people looked at me strangely when I talked. Then, one day, I was hurt in an accident. I stumbled into my ...
TV Guy Writes Book
The idea to write my story came shortly after I interviewed Walter Cronkite. For years I had been searching for a picture of my father's, information ...
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