26: Janet Kirkman on Life Story Writing, Teaching, and More, Part 1

The Life Story Coach

Today's episode is part 1 or our interview with Janet Kirkman, a 15-year veteran or life story writing. She talks to us about writing life stories, clients who self-publish, teaching memoir classes based on Guided Autobiography, and how she learned to create legacy letters with Barry Baines.

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We had some technical difficulties with the sound and lost the first part of the conversation. The TIME Magazine article Janet refers to was part of a publicity campaign spearheaded by fellow life story writer Lettice Stuart, a founding member of the now-defunct Association of Personal Historians. According to Pat McNees on her amazing writersandeditors.com site, "It was Lettice who pushed reporters to write articles about APH, and whose friend at the Wall Street Journal wrote the first major media article about APH. Then several national publications got on the bandwagon and published stories – Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the LA Times, Time Magazine, and many more."

The interview with Janet was packed with so much good information (and inspiration!) that I split it into two parts. Stay tuned for part 2! (Click here if you want a heads-up as soon as it goes live.)

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