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...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jan 20, 2025 | News, Writing Process Tips
This has been an intense decade for me. Prior to my most recent medical challenges, I spent a few years caregiving for loved ones with severe medical crises of their own. Since 2016, I’ve spent a lot of time in cancer centers, the neuro-trauma ICU, and hospice rooms....
by MontanaCoauthor | Feb 2, 2022 | Writing Process Tips
Only a couple short months ago, I referred to January as Writer’s Summertime. It’s a deep-freeze month when I’m glad to be indoors at my writing desk every day. Such a contrast to the hard physical work dawn-to-dusk during the farm’s growing season. This year, January...
