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Getting to the Heart of your Powerful Life Story

September 5, 2019October 1, 2018 by Ruby Peru
powerful life story

It’s great when ghostwriting clients can find memoir themes that reach beyond their own lives and have something to say to the community at large. This is where you get to ask: What has my life been about? What have I learned? It all starts with finding a great memoir theme. Finding memoir themes is … Read more

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Caitlin Moran’s Memoir a Triumph

May 2, 2020July 25, 2018 by Ruby Peru

Three cheers for Caitlin Moran’s memoir, How to Be a Woman, which had me laughing all the way through and on into the night! Meet Writer Caitlin Moran With a precocious start as a teen music writer, she went on to write a column for The Times for nearly two decades. You can study lots of … Read more

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What a Timeline Means to your Memoir

June 28, 2019June 29, 2018 by Ruby Peru

Today, I’d like to talk to memoir ghostwriting clients about something I use in the process of writing your memoir: a timeline. The timeline is a research document, and in it, I simply catalogue all the life events you’ve told me about. I put these events into a grid, in order, listed by year. Timelines … Read more

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Ruby Peru is an author, biographer, and ghostwriter. Her latest book is Money Isn’t Everything, Everything is Money, co-authored with Tom Shepard. Her ghostwritten biographies focus on retaining the author’s unique sense of humor while illustrating how personal experience, society, and culture form each client’s unique point of view.

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Money Isn’t Everything, Everything is Money

Book Cover: Money isn't Everything, Everything is Money. A personalized approach to valuing and trading time, energy, relationships, and money. Tom Shepard with Ruby Peru.
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