Services & Pricing
Life Story Book
Based on in-person interviews and told in your own words, your printed life story, enhanced with personal photos, is a tangible keepsake that you, your family and friends can enjoy for years to come. While digital media can become obsolete — remember floppy disks? — a printed book, like your fondest memories, is forever.
$6,000-$8,000*
Life Story Audio File
Included with your life story book at no additional charge, our personal interviews will be transferred as audio files to a flash drive for your use, so your loved ones can hear your stories in your own voice.
Complimentary
Ethical Wills
An ethical will is a non-legal, personal document or message created to pass down values, life lessons, beliefs, family stories, and hopes to future generations. Unlike a traditional will that distributes material assets, this legacy document shares intangible wisdom, love, forgiveness and guidance to ensure your experiences and philosophies are remembered.
From $350
Pricing Transparency & Guidelines
While prices for the professional writing of life histories, ghost-written biographies and memoirs can easily reach into tens of thousands of dollars, Chapters to Life takes a slightly different, more personal approach that also favors efficiency and, therefore, greater affordability. You will tell your story, and I will largely preserve your words rather than rewrite, alter and embellish them. While I will organize your narrative for flow and clarity, and supply some “connective tissue” as needed, your responses in our interviews are the heart of the material.
Accordingly, a Chapters to Life book typically ranges from $6,000 to $8,000 — with an audio file included at no additional charge. The base fee will start at a flat $6,000 and will increase only if the scope of the project grows beyond what’s specified in the initial agreement: if extra interviews, additional photos or research, or more time are needed midway through the process. My role is to keep us focused and on track toward a $6,000 project completion, and I will provide progress updates as we go, alerting you to any potential increases ahead so we can adjust to contain costs, if needed.
Prices include printing and delivery of one book, soft or hard cover, up to 150 pages. Extra copies of books may be ordered directly from the publisher for an additional fee.