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Transforming oral histories into self-published life stories (memoir or autobiography)
Oral histories are stories told by one person to another and recorded and/or documented. They can be about the person’s whole life, just one experience or period of the person's life, or a theme ...
Portfolio: all the self-published books we have produced
We produce books 'from go to whoa': i.e., from handwritten or typed manuscript, or spoken story, through editing and graphic design, to self-published book stage. All of the following books ...
Sally-Anne’s experience editing books
Sally-Anne Watson Kane has 30 years' professional writing and editing experience. She is a professional member of Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) and Secretary of Life Stories Australia. ...
Why get an ISBN and barcode for your self-published book?
Why get an ISBN, or a barcode, for your self-published book? What is an ISBN? 'ISBN' stands for ' International Standard Book Number'. It is used to identify published (including self-published) ...
Portfolio of self-published memoirs, life stories and family histories
Over past years, we have produced the below memoirs, autobiographies, memoir-based poetry collections, life stories and family histories, as self-published books. Currently being edited and design...
Storytelling and life story writing, as a healing process
Storytelling and sharing your stories (verbal or written): helps you better understand and heal from/learn to live with your past experiences helps you better understand your ongoing disabi...
‘Monty – the amazing adventures of Montague Richard Leverson’ by Tony Taylor (self-published book)
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading produced the following self-published book in early 2022 for Victorian-based author Tony Taylor: Copyright: Tony Taylor 2022 Title: Monty - the ama...
Recording and documenting oral histories
An oral history is a spoken or documented record of someone's memories of their own life experiences. Oral histories are handed down from generation to generation, or stories of someone's own life....
Positive outcomes of documenting life stories for people with PTSD
I have over twenty years' experience in documenting and producing self-published books of stories and oral histories of people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The sources of ...
Buibere – volumes 1 and 2. Self-published oral histories of 22 East Timorese women, in Tetun and English
Acknowledgement Sally-Anne Watson Kane would like to acknowledge and thank her mentor, friend and bi'in, ita bo'ot Veronica Pereira, for the professional and cultural assistance and support she pr...