Member Since:
Nov. 10, 2011
Jane Hertenstein
Biography
Jane Hertenstein is the author of over 90 published stories both macro and micro: fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre. In addition she has published a YA novel, Beyond Paradise and a non-fiction project, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, which garnered national reviews. Jane is the recipient of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times. She teaches a workshop on Flash Memoir and can be found blogging at http://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/
Where to find Jane Hertenstein online
Books
Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing
by Jane Hertenstein
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 23,610.
Language:
English.
Published: May 22, 2017
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Categories:
Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
We begin with a sudden memory, follow it to see where it leads. Yet so many of us tend to ignore these flashes.Using a process I call write right now, I help the writer to harvest the urgency of sudden memories.The prompts in this book are designed to spur memories, to get you writing. I’ll also direct you to resources, authors to read and study, and places to submit.
Freeze Frame: How to Write Flash Memoir
by Jane Hertenstein
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 20,430.
Language:
English.
Published: October 27, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Motivation & inspiration
Many of us are looking to write memories—either in the form of literary memoir or simply to record family history. This how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, helping the writer to isolate or freeze-frame a moment and then distill it onto paper.
365 Affirmations for the Writer
by Jane Hertenstein
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 26,090.
Language:
English.
Published: October 27, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Motivation & inspiration, Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Personal Growth / General
Writing is a journey. Every time we sit down to begin a piece or write the first chapter or the first line we are venturing into uncharted territory. 365 Affirmations for the Writer is about listening to those who have gone before us and letting them guide us with their insight, their own trials. By reading what others have said, we can survey the path before us, count the cost, and plunge ahead.
Beyond Paradise
by Jane Hertenstein
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 40,830.
Language:
English.
Published: November 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Historical
Louise Keller travels with her missionary family to the Philippines on the eve of Pearl Harbor. At first the country seems like paradise, but soon Louise and her family are captured by the Japanese and forced to live in internment camps.
Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady
by Jane Hertenstein
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 57,890.
Language:
English.
Published: November 14, 2011
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
Tens of thousands of homeless people walk the streets, forgotten, yet each with their own story to tell. Marie James, a 69-year-old bag lady, and a frequent guest at an inner-city mission in Chicago, sat with Jane Hertenstein through the summer of 1995 and recorded this shocking and moving story of life filled with sorrow, loss, mental instability, and hope.