Early in my career I spent 13 years in book editing before becoming a broker. Editing was great and it gave me the idea for The Preservation Foundation, my nonprofit. Our goal is to "preserve the extraordinary works of 'ordinary' people." It was reading the autobiographies and biographies we got at Abingdon Press by the basket and would not publish (no market) that made me think that someone ought to make sure these life stories survived--thus the Preservation Foundation. We preserve them on our web site and have recently begun publishing them as E-Books on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Check our web site or our first E-Book at Amazon or Barnes and Noble Search "Kindle Mary's Diary" or "Nook Mary's Diary." If you have an appropriate book or story email us at preserve@storyhouse.org By the way, not all the stories we publish are biographical and we even have a section of fiction. So if you are a writer and are looking for a place to share your stories with the world check us out. There is no advertising on our site and we have no dues, fees, or solitications. Just good stories and good people writing them.