The Nice-Nice Club Holds Its Last Meeting

By Denis Ledoux

THE NICE-NICE CLUB HOLDS ITS LAST MEETING

In this short, tightly-written memoir, a family of adult siblings disintegrates when the aging mother who invested in holding the family together is no longer able to do so. In THE NICE-NICE CLUB HOLDS ITS LAST MEETING, the family's "we love one another" façade which had “worked” for a long time crumbles, showing inner workings that were badly in need of fixing.

The personal crisis is exacerbated by this family being a minister’s family that has long accepted that it must be the perfect Christian family. “People are judging Daddy by how we behave with one another,” warns the mother whose “We love one another” mantra has lost its controlling power as one of the siblings realizes there is no back up action, that people are behaving in ways that are not very loving?

What happens when a person see the truth about the relationships in this family, to ask for honesty in their dealings with one another?

Why you ought to read THE NICE-NICE CLUB HOLDS ITS LAST MEETING

~ This is a beautifully written memoir that will take you through a summer of struggle and realignment.
~ In this short read, you will learn much about how a family can malfunction and how some members can react in a healthy fashion.
~ This memoir is a lead in to the insightful and poignant THE CANCER JOURNAL / MY EYE FELL INTO THE SOUP. THE NICE-NICE CLUB HOLDS ITS LAST MEETING is background for the devastating illness that strikes one member of the family.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Denis Ledoux
• Release date: Mar 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311457103

Denis Ledoux

YOU CAN LEARN TO WRITE FROM THE INSIDE OUTI believe in the power of telling our personal and family stories. These are our hero's journeys, and by telling them we honor ourselves and the people we have come from. An important early task for the writer is go inside and find the story that is worth telling. The story is not about "nice" words; it is about honest words, visceral words.LIFESTORIES FEED USStories have always played an important role in my life. I grew up in a three-generation home with paternal grandparents who lived upstairs. I heard tales of my extended family and their history recounted by the family storyteller, my grandmother Ledoux. These stories were a food for my soul. I could not get enough of them, and her gift to me was that she was a voluble, entertaining storyteller.I began writing as a short-story writer, drawing on family characters, settings, and stories for my fiction. In 1989, I won the Maine Fiction Award for Mountain Dance & Other Stories. My other titles include What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America (1988), and Lives in Translation: An Anthology of Contemporary Franco-American Writings (which I edited in 1990). In 1992, I published (and it is still in print) Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories; in 1996, The Photo Scribe / How to Tell the Stories Behind Your Photos; in 2009, The Consumer's Guide to Ghostwriting, in 2013, a memoir—We Were Not Spoiled. E-publication includes the books listed here in Smashwords as well as others.MAKING THE LEAP TO BECOMING A MEMOIR PROFESSIONALIt was a natural leap from my own family stories to helping others to record their stories in well-written accounts that apply all the techniques of fiction writing to autobiography, family reminiscence, and scrapbooking.In 1996, I was honored as Lifewriting Professional of the Year by the Association of Personal Historians.THE MEMOIR NETWORKToday, I continue to work as a writer, educator, teacher, autobiography co-author, memoir-writing coach, editor and publisher. I direct The Memoir Network, an international group of lifestory writing teachers who use my method and materials to lead the popular Turning Memories® and Photo Scribe® workshops and programs.My Memoir Network offers Memoir Professional Packages for individuals wishing to do what we call memoir work in their communities. [http://thememoirnetwork.com/memoir-professional-packages/] Please inquire if you are interested in becoming a Memoir Professional.BUILD YOUR MEMOIR-WRITING LIBRARYYou will find a number of my memoir-writing e-books on Smashwords. Begin to purchase them now so as to develop your memoir-writing library. These are the best memoir-writing books available anywhere at any price.BEYOND THE BOOKSIf you need more than these great books, give me call at 207-353-5454 for a free consultation to determine whether coaching, editing, or ghostwriting is a good fit for you. When you're ready, we can also do book production for you.Keep writing and stay in the memoir conversation.

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The Nice-Nice Club Holds

Its Last Meeting

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KUDOS FOR DENIS LEDOUX

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Denis Ledoux won the 1989 Maine Fiction Award judged by Elizabeth Hardwick and the juried 1991 and 1996 Maine Individual Writing Fellowships.

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Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to have people speak well about The Memoir Network, about Memoir Network products and about Denis.

~ Time Magazine wrote of Denis in an article on memoir writing in April 1999: Denis Ledoux has helped thousands of people get started writing their memoir.

~ The Christian Science Monitor ran either roundups or feature articles on Denis. Three times.

~ His Turning Memories Into Memoirs was deemed by Booklist (the review medium of the American Library Association) as very beneficial…helps writers get off to a great start.

~ Rhonda Kanning Anderson,