Category Archives: Interviews

Meet the Personal History Expo Exhibitors: Part 4, Effective Day

Part 3 of our interviews/introductions to the exhibitors that will be staffing tables at the 2011 Personal History Expo. For more information about the expo, click here.   Nancy Hagan is the owner of Effective Day, a company that specializes … Continue reading

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Meet the Personal History Expo Exhibitors: Part 3, Extraordinary Lives

Part 3 of our interviews/introductions to the exhibitors that will be staffing tables at the 2011 Personal History Expo. For more information about the expo, click here. Mary Ann Mayers is co-owner of Extraordinary Lives, a company that works with … Continue reading

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Self-Publishing Advice from an Expert: Part 3

Part 3 of Hillary Doyle’s interview with David Braughler, Account Manager at Greyden Press. What are some examples of books you’re published recently? Recent books include “Images Old and New” – the culmination of 20 years of study of Christian … Continue reading

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Meet the Personal History Expo Exhibitors: Part 2, SLK Communications

Part 2 of our interviews/introductions to the exhibitors that will be staffing tables at the 2011 Personal History Expo. For more information about the expo, click here. Susan Knobler, of SLK Communications, writes and designs family histories and photo books … Continue reading

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Self-Publishing Advice from an Expert: Part 2

Part 2 of Hillary Doyle’s interview with Greyden Press Account Manager, David Braughler. (Click here for Part 1) How does a book’s target audience affect printing choices? Great question! The target audience can have a direct impact on printing choices. … Continue reading

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Self-Publishing Advice from an Expert: Part 1

  Recently Hillary Doyle spent some time with David Braughler, Account Manager with Greyden Press, a Dayton area digital printing and self-publishing firm. Greyden is a valuable partner of Beyond the Trees, and we just knew that David would have … Continue reading

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How a Writing Group Was Transformative for Homeless Teens (The Backstory – Part 2 of 2)

(Our Backstory Series looks at the stories behind the stories – the process and experience of putting together books we publish at Beyond the Trees.) In Part 1 of this interview with Dawn Koch, facilitator of a writing group for … Continue reading

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How a Writing Group Was Transformative for Homeless Teens (The Backstory – Part 1 of 2)

(Our Backstory Series looks at the stories behind the stories – the process and experience of putting together books we publish at Beyond the Trees.) In some ways, it was a writing group like any other – teen-aged girls with … Continue reading

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Tips on Interviewing Older Adults (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 1 of this blog, we talked with writer/photographer/archivist Connie Springer about her traveling exhibit and companion book, Positively Ninety: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians. Over the course of two years Connie sought out active elders – whose minimum age … Continue reading

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Tips on Interviewing Older Adults (Part 1 of 2)

Swimming 900 meters across the Ohio River. Singing a soloist role in Handel’s The Messiah. Marching in a peace protest. These are just a few of the myth-busting activities of older adults that writer/photographer/archivist Connie Springer discovered after she interviewed … Continue reading

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