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WELCOME TO BIO.GRAPHIA!

Each of us has a special story to tell.

Bio.Graphia provides personal, artful ways to preserve your treasured memories. Whether you are interested in a heart-felt literary tribute to someone you love, a web biography or a full-scale family history, Bio.Graphia combines skillful interviewing with inventive literary expression to creating lasting Life Portraits.

My experience as a Literary Agent and Personal Historian allows us to find an individual voice for your story -- as well as success in the marketplace. With over 25 years in publishing, marketing, television and film, my goal is to help people of all ages and abilities to realize their literary and artistic dreams.

Bio.Graphia offers an array of elegant, one-of-a-kind presentation formats -- from portraiture to archival-quality collage art -- to create the perfect complement to your personal narrative.

Please get in touch with me for a complimentary consultation at 510.919.6117 or e-mail me at biographia2008@gmail.com and we'll get started bringing your dream to life!

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October 18, 2011

YOU'RE INVITED!

Congratulations to Author Jean Lyford
on the publication of her new book of poems, WAVES OF TIME by Azalea Art Press in Berkeley, CA.

The lyrical poems of Jean Lyford possess a powerful dignity and an unerring eye for the details of nature. Reflecting on love and loss, Jean offers us a transcendent view of the human journey and the rewards of renewing our connection with our personal past.

Meet the Author on Thursday, November 10th at Orinda Books and hear Jean read selections from her work. To pre-order books, click here.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT BIO.GRAPHIA

Karen Mireau captured the essence of my 96-year-old mother in her portrait, "Color in Motion: The Life of Miriam Brandschain." I wanted her great grandchildren to know about her generosity and artistic talent. I got more than I expected. The book is beautifully bound in handmade paper, with many photographs. My mother was thrilled with it! Karen knows how to communicate at a deep and meaningful level with people of many types and ages, and to distill that into a memento of richness and beauty. - Marjory Harris, Esq.

THOUGHTS ON MEMOIR AND STORY

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. - Samuel Johnson
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. " - W.H. Auden
A child's play is spontaneous, daring, dynamic and imaginative. With child-like curiousity, the journey of life allures and invites the unknown and the willingness to be guided down unexpected paths . . ." - Tae Cyungha
"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's memoir." - Will Rogers
"When truthfulness is honored, describing the world and describing ourselves become the same act." - Deena Metzger
"What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show each on the bright pin of a polished phrase." - Logan Pearsall Smith
"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they are dead." - Samuel Goldwyn
"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps." - Eric Bentley
"Discretion is the better part of biography." - Lytton Strachey
"Biography lends to death a new terror." - Oscar Wilde
"Biography is the only true history." - Thomas Carlyle
"Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Autobiography is probably the most respected form of lying." - Humphrey Carter
"Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two." - Ellery Sedgwick
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory." - Franklin P. Jones
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived." - Herbert Samuel
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing." - Quentin Crisp

A FEW DEFINITIONS:

Account:
An informal narrative often used for entertainment, with emphasis on details of actions, of an incident or a series of happenings.

Epitaph:
A brief inscription or other writing in praise of a deceased person.

Epithet:
A word or phrase to describe an actual or attributed quality, as in 'Richard the Lion-Hearted'.

LIfe History:
Tracing the causes and effects of a person's life in an attempt to evaluate and interpret the facts.

Memoir:
A record of events of a person's life and experiences.

Memorial:
Something designed to preserve the memory of a person or an event.

Obituary:
A notice of death accompanied by a short biographical sketch.

Portrait:
A verbal picture or description.

Profile:
An informal biography or concisely presented sketch of the life and character of a person.

Recital:
An extended narrative with an informative purpose emphasizing accurate details of a person's life.

Saga:
A leisurely chronicle of a family or social group, often in novel form.

Sketch:
A brief outline of the facts of a person's history.

PERFECT WORDS FOR EVERY OCCASION

* Together we can find the perfect words to express your life story. Please contact me for your complimentary consultation at 510.919.6117 or biographia2008@gmail.com.
Amends
Anecdotes
Anniversaries
Artists' and Writers' Journeys
Baptisms / Christenings
Biography
Birth Announcements
Business Biographies
Commemoratives
Commencements
Confessions
Corporate Tributes
Creative Memorials
Editing
Epitaphs
Ethical Wills
Family Chronicles
Ghostwriting
Heritage Narratives
Life Change Ceremonies
Life Stories
Love Letters
Love Stories
Memoir
Mission Statements
Naming Ceremonies
Pet Portraits
Profiles
Retirement Tributes
Sensitive Obituaries
Spiritual Histories
Story Legacies
Testaments
Toasts and Roasts
Transcription
Web Profiles
Wedding Vows

INSPIRATIONS

THE PATH

there is this little walk

that takes you somewhere

quite different than you thought

it goes up the hill, then doubles back

so many times in the dark wood

that after awhile you wonder:

why it was you came

or where you wanted to go

or even, if you ever want

to return

THERE COMES A TIME

For Jo Motsinger

In Memoriam

there comes a time

when we long

for a secret house

made of leaves,

a mountain wind

or the salt-memory

of the sea

and we start the journey

casting everything aside

not knowing, once more

who we are

or where we've been