Marjory Diane Lyons, Ph. D., is a writer, seminar leader and college professor who started out in Miller Place, Long Island writing a family newspaper on Great Aunt Peggy's big Oliver typewriter when she was seven years old. Marjory received her first writing award from the Daughter's of the American Revolution when she was in fifth grade writing a story about Colonial America. Today, Marjory is owner of Telling Your Story, Inc., a publishing company specializing in writing memoirs and life stories in book form. Recently Marjory was quoted on memoir-writing in Newsday, a Long Island, N Y daily, and Metro Arts, a Detroit paper. A humorous memoir about her first year teaching was published by the educational honorary association, Kappa Delta Pi in the New Teacher Advocate, and a Mother's Day story was published in the Pompano Pelican in Florida in 2003.
Author of academic and business articles and manuals, she is a board member of the Florida Publishers Association, president of the Writers' Network of South Florida, and a board member of the National League of American Pen Women, Fort Lauderdale branch. She is also on the national faculty of Nova Southeastern University.
In her workshop, "Tips on Writing Your Life Story," Marjory will focus on organizing important life experiences and determining what to write about—a whole life, a memoir, or a recollection of a time or event. Included will be such topics as: identifying and selecting milestones; developing a theme; and setting up the story line.
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