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Celebrating 30 Years!

SHOP: Memory Lane Books & Gifts

About

Modern Memoirs, Inc.

Frequently Asked Questions

Services

Process & Costs

Printing & Binding; Print On Demand (POD)

Online Author Page

Tribute Books & Celebration Books/Festschrifts

(Advance) Obituaries & Ethical Wills/Legacy Letters

Grandbooks for Young Readers

Testimonials & Locales

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Proud Clients & Happy Moments
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Proud Clients and Happy Moments

David B. Dearinger, with "A Southern Madam and Her Man"

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A memoir, 11 years in the making

Margaret Marcus

Ali (center) visits wonderful former client Joyce Phillips and her husband, Gary, in San Diego. We helped Joyce produce three beautiful family history books.

Author Charlie Burlingham inscribes our copies of his memoir According to Charlie: A Modest Odyssey

Vinsula, Kitty, and Ali with our dear client Charlie Burlingham upon completion of his 698-page memoir (2018)

Author Charlie Burlingham visits us at our office in Amherst, MA

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Bouquet from happy client

Former clients Mary Jane and John Bower with Kitty (right) celebrating John’s completed memoir.

Proud clients, Out of the Red Clay Hills (2016)

Beloved former clients visit us in Amherst from Alabama almost every summer. ( From left) Kitty, Steve, Ali, Kathy, and Vinsula

Ali and Kitty show off drafts and final book of the longest-running and finally completed project The Workman Brothers: A Westward Epic (2017)

Bob Holliker, who wrote his family history for his grandchildren, sends us homemade Lebkuchen cookies every year, his grandmother’s recipe, pictured at the end of his book.

Former client Bob Holliker visits us in Amherst

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Ali delivers a presentation on the process and importance of memoir writing at Lasell Village, Newton, MA (2016)

Ali and Vinsula visit Ms. Chris Wood (center) , author of 3 books with Modern Memoirs

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We hosted First Person, First Night, a monthly public reading group for memoir writers, for more than a decade.

Vinsula, Ali, and Kitty, celebrating the arrival of Grant Craven's memoir, Wearing Out Pickups (on table) with a delicious local farm-to-table lunch

Proud client Inge Staton (left) with Kitty upon completing her collection of father’s WWII letters.

Inge Staton with her opus

Client Inge Staton was thrilled to report that her book about her father, The Unknown Legacy of Albert H. Staton , is officially part of a display at the Miami Military Museum & Memorial in Florida. This picture was taken by Inge at the soft-la

A client gifted us with a delectable assortment of nuts and candies from his almond farms in CA

A client’s holiday gift of delicious oranges

A client’s gift of scrumptious pears and cheeses after his book was done!

Kitty conducting a Modern Memoirs training of editors: Sensitive Editing for Ruthless Editors , Amherst, MA

Kitty is learning cello! 2018

Ali, Vinsula, and Kitty celebrate the winter solstice with coordinating mugs

Kitty reads The New York Times article in which she discusses the business of personal history

Kitty (holding book), narrator Sonia Erlich, and Sonia's family gather for a photoshoot for The New York Times article, "Have a Story to Tell? Your Personal Memoirist Is Here", published August 31, 2016

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417 West Street, Suite 104, Amherst, MA 01002

413-253-2353

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