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Prompt & Print gives them the questions. These three take it further, depending on how much you’d like to hand over: the binding, the asking, or the writing.

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turnaround
6–8 weeks

Guided Completion

They write it in their own hand. We photograph every page, drop the ruling away, and bind the handwriting into a hardback.

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turnaround
10–12 weeks

Full Interview

Nobody has to write anything. We ask, over two or three conversations by telephone, and it comes back as a hardback in their own words.

from $595 $595 two conversations · $850 three See details
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turnaround
14–16 weeks

The Written Story

Three or four conversations, then it is written up as prose. Not questions and answers — a story that reads as one.

from $1,595 $1,595 three conversations · $1,950 four See details
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What you get

Every One Of These Includes

Twenty-five questions, chosen by you
The storyteller may remove anything, without a reason
Nothing prints until you approve it
One payment. Nothing renews, nothing expires
Posted on a tracked service
Pricing

Where Every Book Starts

Every book starts with your questions and their name on the cover. The other three ways add the parts you’d rather hand over: the binding, the asking, or the writing.

Prompt & Print
$49 one-time

The workbook only.

Twenty-five questions you choose, typeset and coil-bound as a 7 × 10 inch workbook with the storyteller’s name on the cover. Two pages for each answer. The workbook is theirs to keep.
Order Prompt & Print
Guided Completion
$195 one-time

Workbook and hardback with handwriting.

Order Guided Completion
$345 one-time

Workbook and hardback with handwriting plus a typed page facing it.

Order Guided Completion Plus
The 7 × 10 inch workbook and the finished 8½ × 11 inch hardback together. They write the answers by hand, send it back, and every page is photographed and bound — their own handwriting, kept.
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Full Interview
$595 one-time

Nothing for them to write. Completed in two conversations.

Order Full Interview – 2 conversations
$850 one-time

Nothing for them to write. Completed in three conversations.

Order Full Interview – 3 conversations
Two (or three) one-hour conversations by phone, on separate days. We ask, they talk, and every answer is typed up and printed as an 8½ × 11 inch hardback. Nothing for them to write.
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The Written Story
$1,595 one-time

A continuous life story, about 16,000 words over three conversations.

Order The Written Story – 3 conversations
$1,950 one-time

A continuous life story, about 16,000 words over four conversations.

Order The Written Story – 4 conversations
Three (or four) conversations written up as a continuous life story of about 16,000 words, not questions and answers. Two rounds of revisions, bound as a 6 × 9 inch hardback.
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Additional Copy
$35 each

Copy of the finished hardback.

Second Workbook
$25 each

Another copy to write in.

Large-Print Copy
$45 each

A second hardback at 17 point.

Keepsake Upgrade
$146 one-time

Hardback after returned workbook.

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