Storyical

Patricia Hamilton is owner and CEO of Park Place Publication, and Keepers of our culture imprint. Patricia started writing about personal history when taking journalism in high school. She gravitated into publishing other people’s memoirs after she finished her initial career. Patricia is a book publisher and Personal Historian and describes her job as going from getting the words from a client to putting it on the internet. Today we talk about two things – the magic of memoir writing, and the second is how Patricia got her town to write a book.  Her latest book is not by a single author but sourced by residents and visitors to Pacific Grove. She never planned the project, it just happened! Whilst she was teaching a free writing class, she mentioned to one of the participants that the stories everyone was writing were so good they should be in a book, but would need illustrating. Fortunately, he was an illustrator, and offered to do the illustrating if Patricia published the book. The book is called “Life in