Sometime around 2019 or 2020, I decided to self-publish a craft book for memoir and life story writers that had been writing itself by way of the tips and prompts I’d been giving my students for years. There was only one person I could dare ask to work with me on such an audacious project, my friend Dorka Hegedus. Dorka is a professional photographer, a visual creative, and a fantastic collaborator. More importantly, she loves a challenge. I knew all of this because we’d worked together on many projects in the past, including sharing tips on raising sons, cooking soups and nourishing foods together and for one another, never compromising on coffee, and two oral history projects you can see HERE and HERE.

Dorka and I published our first Demitasse Press book, How to Begin Writing Your Life Stories: Putting Memories on the Page, in August 2024. We’re currently at work on our second one, Memories on the Page: A Year of Tips and Prompts for Memoir and Life Story Writers, to be published in September 2025. You can read about our self-publishing adventures HERE and HERE.

In the meantime, we’ve learned that we adore making books. We’d love to talk to you about your book and whether Demitasse Press might be a good fit for helping you through your own self-publishing journey.