Memoir Your Way: Tell Your Story Through Writing, Recipes, Quilts, Graphic Novels, and More

A new approach to family and personal memoirs that includes many creative formats.

Memoir Your Way inspires family storykeepers to create a memoir using a craft you already know or are inspired to learn to create a personal, polished memoir your family will treasure. Accessible and with broad appeal, this first-of-its-kind book extends the written memoir form to cookbooks, scrapbooks, quilts, and other forms of storytelling.

Readers of Memoir Your Way will find out how to:

Create your own family cookbook like a pro
Design, stitch, and create stunning quilts that preserve family memories for the next generation and create a cherished gift
Bring out the natural storyteller in children while building self-confidence and a sense of family
Write engaging family stories with proven writing tips
Enrich scrapbooks with stories that might otherwise be overlooked and techniques that showcase even the memories that weren't preserved in photographs
Turn your story into a graphic novel with hand-drawn illustrations
Become the bridge for your heritage between the old world and the new

Memoir Your Way makes memoir accessible to everyone, including those who don't see themselves as writers. Memoir Your Way is a valuable sourcebook for quickly and easily creating memoirs that celebrate family stories and ancestry.

The Memoir Roundtable is a group of six writers, crafters, and workshop leaders: nationally known quilter and American Folk Art Museum award-winner Linda Pool; public TV producer, cookbook editor, and cultural anthropologist Dianne Hennessy King; award-winning writer and memoir workshop leader Joanne Lozar Glenn; children’s literacy expert and speaker Nadine James; memoir teacher, educational game inventor, and scrapper Katherine Nutt; and award-winning content producer, author, and graphic novel creator Natasha Peterson. The authors reside in Virginia.