by MontanaCoauthor | Nov 28, 2025 | News, Sketchbook
Confession: I’m not crazy about Thanksgiving. There are several reasons for that, beginning with early memories of my mother being profoundly stressed out during the preparations for the holiday, often to the point of developing a migraine and running to her room to...
by MontanaCoauthor | Sep 16, 2025 | Client Book Release or Event, News, Writing Process Tips
One year ago, attorney and author Karen McMullin published a “community memoir” describing how her small Montana town recovered from a tragic shooting in 2003. The book, Love Wins: A True Story of Tragedy, Heroes, and Healing has received robust positive reviews...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jul 2, 2025 | Writing Process Tips
For the past 25 years, as a ghostwriter, editor, and author coach serving authors with incredible survival stories, I have met and worked closely with people who have lived through unbelievable circumstances. The current blog series focuses on the unique challenges of...
by MontanaCoauthor | May 7, 2025 | News, Writing Process Tips
As someone who divides my time between writing and microfarm-management, boy do I understand the tension between indoor and outdoor work this time of year. With planting well underway at Stone’s Throw Microfarm right now, I am not in my office a whole lot this time of...
by MontanaCoauthor | Mar 16, 2025 | Writing Process Tips
Does your story qualify as a Survivor-Thriver story, or is it just surviving? What’s the difference? Most of the time, when a non-writer comes to me with a memoir project, they have survived something incredible. Maybe they survived a natural disaster, a severe...
