Hi, I’m Heather Millar, owner of Life Stories Ink. I’m a life story writer, biographer and ghostwriter based in Adelaide, South Australia. I’m also an accredited editor specialising in memoir.
I was fortunate enough to record my father’s memoirs before he died and write them down. I learned many things about him I’d never known before – and he so enjoyed the process of looking back and telling his stories.
Just prior, a distant cousin had gotten in touch. She had researched and written my great-great grandparents’ story, and I discovered I come from a long line of writers, editors and printers. No-one had ever told me. Knowing this has helped me make so much sense of my life, my talents, my gifts.
When I think back to my childhood, it seems inevitable I would end up as a life story writer. I loved writing little stories and making handmade books … and don’t get me started on magazines – I was obsessed. It’s no surprise I went on to become managing editor at publishing companies in London and Melbourne.
Interviewing people for feature magazine articles was the way I started recording and writing people’s stories. I later went on to ghostwrite an award-winning memoir for a leading publisher.
Not only do I help people write and self-publish their books for a living, but I have volunteered as a biographer at the Mary Potter Hospice, helping people who are in palliative care to tell their stories. I have also been on the board of Australians Against Racism, for which I co-edited the books Dark Dreams and No Place Like Home - anthologies of stories by refugees.
I am an accredited editor with the Institute of Professional Editors and on the board of Life Stories Australia.
You can read more about me here: Heather Millar | LinkedIn