Post #103 – Memoir Writing News – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Four New Ways to Get Inspired (For Just $ .99 Each)
We have exciting news to share today.
Get inspired in your life and your writing with four new ebooks. The true stories in the four volumes of Seasons of Our Lives will charm, intrigue, captivate, and compel you because they speak of our lives almost as much as they do the authors’.
The details of childhood, coming of age, adulthood, and aging—of passion, friendship, love, sacrifice, betrayal, disappointment, survival, and unexpected joy—of lives intersecting with history—of ordinary yet extraordinary experiences are unique to these award-winning authors and yet at their core these stories tell of all our lives.
WomensMemoirs.com and KnowledgeAccessBooks.com are pleased to announce the publication of four new ebooks:
These four volumes in the Seasons of Our Lives series include a total of 100 award-winning true stories. Stories that will make you laugh, cry, feel joy, experience sorrow. Collectively they form a kaleidoscope of life’s multi-faceted seasons.
WomensMemoirs.com held four contests and received hundreds of remarkable stories. Kendra and I read each submission, ranked them, and then made decisions on the winners.
But there is more.
Kendra and I added a mini-lesson, or what we call a “takeaway,” at the end of each story. As you read the 100 stories, you’ll also find 100 short lessons, one tied to each vignette, designed to motivate and inspire you to write your own life vignettes more effectively.
The mini-lessons that follow each award-winning story cover many of the topics important in memoir writing such as:
Have it your way.
If you mainly like to read memoir, then you’ll savor these stories just for themselves and find inspiration in them. Through them you can reflect on your own life, think about your past and how you want to shape your future.
Or, if you are interested in writing, let these stories inspire you and then study the takeaways that accompany each one so that you’ll have new techniques for writing your own life stories. Either way, your way, you have a real treat awaiting you in these four volumes.
Did you say $ .99?
Beginning Saturday February 1 at 8 am (PST) these four ebooks are part of Amazon’s Countdown Deals. For 53 hours all four volumes will be available for just $.99 each–that’s 76% off. The price will increase by $1 each 53 hours until it reaches the regular price of $3.99 each. Given the number of timezones, we’ve included the detailed information below.
The special pricing begins:
6 am, Hawaii Standard Time
8 am, Pacific Standard Time
9 am, Mountain Standard Time
10 am, Central Standard Time
11 am, Eastern Standard Time
Details, details, details
If you’re inclined to want to know the specifics, then:
TITLE: Seasons of Our Lives is a four volume series (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) edited by award-winning authors and memoir coaches Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
PUBLISHER: Knowledge Access Books
CATEGORIES: Kindle Store>Kindle eBooks>Biographies & Memoirs>Specific Groups>Women;
Kindle Store>Kindle eBooks>Education & Reference>Writing, Research & Publishing Guides>Writing Skills
PRICE: Kindle Version; $3.99 each. (Limited time offer: $.99 for 53 hours beginning 8 am PST February 1; Price increases by $1 each 53 hours until it reaches the retail price of $3.99)
LENGTH: Total of 591 pages; 100 stories across 4 volumes with 100 takeaways designed to help readers think about their own lives and how to write their own life stories.
Seasons of Our Lives: Spring (includes 28 stories and takeaways; 160 pages)
Seasons of Our Lives: Summer (includes 21 stories and takeaways; 112 pages)
Seasons of Our Lives: Autumn (includes 22 stories and takeaways; 130 pages)
Seasons of Our Lives: Winter (includes 29 stories and takeaways; 189 pages)
Thanks. We’re quite excited to bring your the stories from so many talented writers who participated in our contests. By purchasing these four volumes, your life and memoir writing will be inspired. And, you have the opportunity to acknowledge your sister writers.
Check Back on Friday
We’ll share a video of Sarah White reading her story “Make Love, Not War”, complete tables of contents so you can see all the authors and stories in Seasons of Our Lives, and quotes from readers and reviewers.
