Memoirs & Legacy Books
The book your family will read for generations.
Memoirs, legacy books, and life stories — written with reverence, kept forever.
For the Story Too Important to Lose
Some stories cannot be told in a year of monthly captures. Some stories require sitting down with someone for fifteen, twenty, thirty hours of recorded conversation. Their fifty-year marriage. Their immigration. Their ministry that began in a basement and now feeds a community. The hard years they survived. The faith they built. The decisions that shaped a generation.
These are full memoirs and legacy books. The kind that families read at a hundred-and-first birthday. The kind that grandchildren find on a bookshelf forty years from now and learn who they came from.
“A memoir is not a list of accomplishments. It is the shape of a soul, written down so others can walk by it.”
Who This Is For
- •The adult child who realizes a parent will not always be here, and the stories will leave with them.
- •The pastor or ministry leader whose life of service should be captured before the next chapter begins.
- •The grandparent who has carried decades of wisdom and wants to leave it written, not lost.
- •The couple approaching their fiftieth anniversary who want to put their love story on the shelf.
- •The author of a singular life — an immigrant, a survivor, a builder, a missionary — whose story belongs in the world.
How It Works
- 1A free Listening Conversation to see if I am the right writer for your story.
- 2An intake call to understand the shape of the life and the structure of the book.
- 3Recorded interview sessions — typically fifteen to thirty hours, spread across two to twelve months.
- 4Existing materials review — photographs, journals, letters, calendars.
- 5Optional contributor voices — family members, ministry partners, longtime friends.
- 6Manuscript compilation, written in the storyteller's voice.
- 7Two to three rounds of revisions until the book sounds exactly like who it is about.
- 8Print-ready manuscript delivered, plus options for full publishing services if desired.
Pricing
Quoted per project after the Listening Conversation.
Memoir and legacy book projects vary widely in scope.
Focused Memoir
$8,500 – $14,000
One storyteller, focused scope, 150–250 pages.
- ✦Up to 20 hours of recorded interviews
- ✦Existing materials review
- ✦Manuscript in the storyteller's voice
- ✦Two rounds of revisions
- ✦Print-ready manuscript
Full Legacy Book
$15,000 – $24,000
Multiple voices welcome, deeper scope, 250–400 pages.
- ✦Up to 40 hours of recorded interviews across multiple voices
- ✦Comprehensive materials review and curation
- ✦Up to 5 outside contributor voices woven in
- ✦Three rounds of revisions
- ✦Print-ready manuscript with photo curation and captions
Multi-Volume Legacy
Custom Quote
For the family or life that requires more than one book.
- ✦Multiple volumes, multiple storytellers
- ✦Archival research and family tree work if needed
- ✦Reproduction of letters, journals, handwritten artifacts
- ✦Custom-designed and bound