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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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) ...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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....

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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 ...

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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...

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