What this service covers
Some lives read like novels — most just need someone who knows where the story hides. I help you find the thread in your memories, journals, or family lore, then weave it into an essay or memoir piece that reads effortlessly and lands emotionally.
Whether it’s a standalone personal essay for publication, a chapter of a memoir-in-progress, or a legacy piece for your family, the process is gentle, confidential, and built around your voice.
- Personal essays (1,200–3,000 words) ready for submission
- Memoir chapters, ghostwritten or coached, in your voice
- Narrative true stories for journals, anthologies and newsletters
- Sensitivity-first interviews — you set the boundaries
From $450 per essay · 2–3 week turnaround
How a memoir piece comes together
The long conversation
One or two unhurried interviews where you talk and I listen — for the anecdotes, the details, the things you almost leave out.
Finding the arc
I map memories into a shape with tension and release, then check it with you before a word of the draft exists.
Draft & gentle edits
You receive a full draft plus two revision rounds. Nothing publishes until it feels true to you.
“She took fifty years of scattered memories and returned them as the story I’d always wanted to tell.”
—Private memoir client
Love true stories? Read “Still Water”, my latest personal essay.
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