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So You Want to Write a Family Memoir! By Thomas Wolf

So, you want to write a family memoir and you want to get it published. Okay, more power to you. But be prepared. If your experience is anything like mine, you are in for a long slog and many surprises. Frankly, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I hope you are quite determined, can deal with rejection, and have a thick skin.

writing, memoirI Libri Book DesignApril 22, 2019family history, publishing

Capturing a Special World by Thomas Wolf

Why did I write The Nightingale’s Sonata? In the opening pages of the book, I give one answer. My mother had entrusted to me a beautiful silver podstakannik or tea-glass holder with an enameled portrait of my two uncles as children. My family had smuggled it out of Russia and eventually my mother passed it on to me along with boxes of family material. She had said, “You must tell the family story.” I promised I would.

But I had another reason for writing the book. . . .

memoir, writing, music history, Lea Luboshutz, female musicians, The Nightingale’s Sonata, Luboshutz, Goldovsky, WolfI Libri Book DesignMarch 30, 2019Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano, Lea Luboshutz, Boris Goldovsky, Andrew Wolf, The Nightingale’s Sonata, Russian music, Russian history, Thomas Wolf, César Franck

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