47: Creating (and Selling) a Community History Book, with Patricia Hamilton
Release Date: 02/21/2019
69: Sex, Intimacy, and Life Story Books
The Life Story Coach
Karin Jones believes sex and intimacy are a big part of our lives, and she challenges personal historians to gently explore this topic with their storytelling clients.
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68: Audio Life Stories with Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, a personal history company that produces audio projects, talks equipment, prices, and more.
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67: Audio Life Stories with Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, Part 1
The Life Story Coach
Personal historian Gloria Nussbaum captures clients' voices and stories on audio recordings. She tells us why it's important and how she does it.
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66: Lisa Kagan of Family Heirloom Arts, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Kagan talks about creating illustrated heirloom books for clients, and how other personal historians help her produce her books
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65: Workshops with Lisa Kagan of Family Heirloom Arts
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Kagan's workshops and retreats help people find their creativity, and help them find her personal history services.
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64: Write a Local Column to Market Your Business, with Lisa Lombardi O'Reilly
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Lombard O'Reilly of Your Stories Written joins us for a conversation about personal history. Listen as we discuss:
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63: Lettice Stuart, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Personal Historian Lettice Stuart on how much her life story books cost, why strangers make better interviewers, more.
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62: Lettice Stuart of Portraits in Words
The Life Story Coach
Long-time Personal Historian Lettice Stuart shares her advice and insight on growing a life story business
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61: Family Legacy Video Founder Steve Pender
The Life Story Coach
Steve Pender of Family Legacy Video talks to The Life Story Coach about helping people create the personal history projects he does best: video biographies.
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60: Starts at 60 Founder Rebecca Wilson
The Life Story Coach
In six short years, Starts at 60 has grown to a platform with a million and a half visitors per month.
info_outlineCreating (and selling) a community history
In today's episode, Patricia Hamilton, publisher at Park Place Publications, discusses a project near and dear to her heart: a curated community history with contributions from residents of Pacific Grove, California.
"It's a community of people."
Patricia talked at Rotary Clubs, heritage societies, senior centers, and libraries, putting out the call for submissions to a book that would be about the community, penned by the community members themselves. She received a whopping 400 submissions, all of which became part of her book, Life in Pacific Grove California: Personal Stories by Residents and Visitors to Butterfly Town U.S.A.
Listen as she discusses how the idea originated, her creative tactics in drumming up interest and story submissions, and how she sold out of a 500-print run on launch day. [Hint: Endorsements from a state senator and the town's mayor help!]
Scrivener contest winner announced!
Thanks to all who participated, and congratulations, our winner,
Ranee Boyd Tomlin.
Woohoo!!!
Ranee is located in Littleton, Colorado. Check out her company at https://www.wordsforstories.com/.
Want to use Scrivener for your writing projects? You can find the Mac version here and the Windows version here.
See how I use my favorite writing software in episodes 31: Scrivener for Life Story Writing and 41: Editing Life Stories with Scrivener. For more guidance, listen to my interview with Gwen Hernandez, author of Scrivener for Dummies.
Links & Stuff
You can reach Patricia at publishingbiz@sbcglobal.net, or visit her website at https://lifeinpacificgrove.com/.