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About Letters For Us

We are a duo of Jens, Jen & Jenn, to be exact. We share a deep interest in storytelling, writing, creating legacies and memoirs. We love history and stories are our thing. We truly enjoy inspiring you to write yours. Or theirs.

Each of us has a personal story to tell, a legacy like none other.
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About The Jens

Jennifer Carroll

Jen has a lifelong passion for helping others write, find personal connections, tell stories. Her calling is helping tell personal stories, synthesize memories and journals into memoirs. She marvels at learning the extraordinary moments of ordinary people and has helped write and compile personal legacies for close family members and friends. She has helped with eulogies, life celebrations and self-published several legacies about those close to her.

Jen has worked at three Michigan newspapers in reporting, writing, coaching and top editing/management roles including as managing editor of the Detroit News and Lansing State Journal. She became a top digital content editor, coach and trainer for a wide network of newspapers and TV stations for Gannett Co., Inc. She is a writing coach, editor and ghostwriter with authors for Traverse City-based publisher Mission Point Press.

 

Jen and storytelling partner, Jenn, offer workshops on all aspects of compiling memoirs and life stories. They are eager to share tips and tools to create legacies. Questions can be directed to LettersForUs17@gmail.com

Jennifer Earls

Jenn has been a writer since grade school. Her background in computers and marketing meant more copy-writing than storytelling, but writing is a natural form of expression for her. 

 

After university, Jennifer began a ghostwriting career that allowed her to stay home with her family while earning a living. She wrote everything from cookbooks to product descriptions, and was magically surprised at how words seemed to flow when she was inspired by a topic. Ghostwriting brought up many conversations about memoirs and "I have a story to tell..." scenarios, therefore, writing memoirs for others became a new service on her menu.

Learning from the past is the part that Jenn enjoys most about helping to compile someone's memoir. When she was writing prisoner stories, the heartfelt honesty always shocked her. Her passion is in inspiring others to be their best self, and to accept that person. "Writing a memoir always opens up doors you had nailed shut, but those moments can be healed in the writing process."

Jenn and storytelling partner, Jen, offer workshops on all aspects of compiling memoirs and life stories. They are eager to share tips and tools to create legacies and obituaries. Questions can be directed to LettersForUs17@gmail.com

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