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Memoir and The Legacy of Mental Illness

by Linda Joy Myers | Nov 11, 2013 | Blog, Interviews, Memories and Memoirs, National Association of Memoir Writers, Writing As Healing

  I spoke with Victoria Costello, author of A Lethal Inheritance at the National Association of Memoir Writers member teleseminar. about the legacy of mental illness. Those of us who come from families with hidden or diagnosed mental illness feel “Other,”...

Are there Secrets in your Family?

by Linda Joy Myers | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs, Writing As Healing

          No one ever saw how my grandmother looked when she was upset—hair frizzed, lips caked with coffee stained lipstick, rage pouring from her eyes as she ranted and raved. Sometimes I would stand in front of her for two hours, afraid to...

Memoir Writing Tips in the Huffington Post

by Linda Joy Myers | Feb 18, 2012 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs

Victoria Costello has written an amazing memoir A Lethal Inheritance. She is a mother, a scientist, a veteran of research, and a great writer, with a passion in her belly for uncovering layers of confusion and prejudice. She traces the history of mental illness in her...
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