Family Memory Books
For the years still unfolding — and the ones about to go.
Keepsakes for the years you are living right now, and the years you are about to send into the world.
For the Mother Who Has Been Meaning to Write It Down
You are living through years you will never get back. The small daily things. The milestones. The offhand sentences a child says at four that disappear by six. You mean to write it down. You mean to journal. The day moves. The week moves. The year ends and the memories scatter.
Family Memory Books are for those years — the ones still unfolding, and the ones you are about to let walk out the door.
“You do the noticing. We do the keeping.”
Two Books to Choose From
Year Book
Standard $750 / Premium $1,100
One year of your family life captured and bound as a hardcover keepsake. Capture as the year unfolds — by voice memo, text, photo, or typed note — and at year's end we shape it into a book in your voice.
Fifty to eighty pages. Held in your hands by mid-January.
Birth-to-Graduation Book
Standard $1,200 / Premium $1,800
Eighteen years of your child's life compiled into a single book — given as a graduation gift. We weave in voices from family and friends and present the finished book in time for graduation day.
Eighty to one hundred and twenty pages.
The Year Book
One year, kept on the shelf.
Throughout the year, you send what you notice — voice memos, photos, a quick text. We organize, shape, and at year's end deliver a hardcover book in your voice. No more lost moments. No more "I'll get to it next month."
The Birth-to-Graduation Book
The gift she will read at twenty-five, at thirty-five, at fifty.
You begin whenever you sign up. We compile birth through graduation, weave in voices from family and friends, and present the finished book in time for graduation day. Your child will know exactly how she was loved.
How These Differ from a Memoir
Memoirs and legacy books are full life stories — fifteen to thirty hours of recorded conversation, deep, layered, often multiple voices. Family Memory Books are mid-priced, mid-touch, and built around capture rather than interview.
If you have a parent or grandparent whose whole life should be written down, you want a memoir or legacy book. If you are a mother who wants to keep the year your family is living, or compile your child's eighteen years before graduation, you want a Family Memory Book.
“The Year Book holds what would have scattered. The Birth-to-Graduation Book gathers what is about to leave.”
If you have a book in you —
let’s talk about how to get it out.
The first conversation is always free. Thirty minutes. No pressure. Just two people sitting down to see if there is a book here — and if Surrendered Heart Publishing is the right home for it.