Memoir Writer

memoir writer

Memoirs and Biographies

Author of two of her own memoirs – Fraying: Mum, memory loss, the medical maze and me (New South Publishing) and 700 Days in El Salvador (Coretext) – Michele Gierck is a specialist memoir writer and professional biographer who accepts private commissions.

Having worked with, and written for, some of Australia’s top entrepreneurs, philanthropists and community organisations, Michele knows how to listen, and how to bring personal and business stories to life on the page. She’s also written family and community histories.

Please note. A member of the Australian Society of Authors, Michele writes memoirs and life stories, or helps you shape what you have written, as well as organising fine editing and proof reading. She does not arrange layout and design or printing. However, she has companies she recommends, who she can liaise with, and they do excellent work at a range of budgets for layout and design as well as printing. One organises ebooks.

If you have a project you’d like to discuss with Michele, get in touch via the contact page on this website. (Include an overview of the story, where you are based, if any drafts have been written, who you would like to read the story, when it is needed, why you would like Michele to work with you, and how you found out about her.)

Services:

  • Specialist memoir writer,
  • Professional biographer,
  • Highly experienced ghostwriter,
  • Skilled shaping your first draft,
  • Manuscript assessment,
  • Arranges fine editing and proofreading,
  • Engaging speaker.
Australian Society of Authors member

Michele enjoys collaborating with people who feel compelled to tell their own story.

For testimonials, see below.

cover of Fraying
cover of 700 Days in El Salvador

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“I am indebted to Michele Gierck for her guidance, incredible insight and structural ability so that my story flowed, resulting in the completion of a magnificent outcome, both as a literary achievement and quality of the finished book. I can confidently recommend Michele as a true professional.”

- Sam Tarascio, Founder & Executive Chairman of Salta Properties, one of Australia’s Top 50 privately-owned companies. (Autobiography)

“‘Michele genuinely loves what she does. This is evident not only by the finished product but the way she goes above and beyond throughout the lengthy process of writing a book. I highly recommend Michele.”

- Tracey Hughes (Biography – Family History)

“I’m very pleased with the book you wrote. (A memoir.) I think you’ve done an exceptional job, and I truly appreciate your patience… My sincere appreciation too for an outstanding result in gaining the goodwill and full cooperation of the once reluctant subject.”

- Brendan O’Brien

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