An AI interviewer asks the questions. You answer by voice, on your own schedule. We write your answers into a hardcover book, in your own words.
“We had one good coat between the three of us. Whoever went out in the cold wore it, and the others waited by the window.”
“I learned to fold a chart in the wheelhouse before I learned to read. The North Sea was patient with me, mostly.”
“I started the company in a borrowed room above a bakery. For two years I smelled of bread and slept beside the fax machine.”
Around 200 pages, written from your interviews in your own voice. Hardcover, in full colour.
You choose the cover colour and the title. Extra copies are $40 each, and you can reorder any time.
Eight steps, from the first question to a hardcover book in the post.
An AI interviewer asks the questions and follows up on the details. 30 to 45 minutes a session, by voice, on your schedule. Eight to twelve sessions on average.
Tell me about the house you grew up in. Who else lived there?
Cardamom, and burnt sugar from the coffee she always forgot on the stove. She baked on Saturday so the house still smelled of it on Sunday morning. There was soap underneath all of it, the green kind, because the washing was done in the same room. And wet wool, from the mittens drying over the range. My father smoked in the doorway and never inside, so that stayed outside the smell. I can walk into a stranger's kitchen now and know within a second that it is the wrong one.
Old recordings, video, scans, a meeting transcript, a folder of notes. Drop the whole pile in. It comes back as finished pages, the people it found, and what to ask next.
Not a transcript. Chapters, with a title page, section breaks, paragraphs and photographs, laid out on the page.
He kept the tin on the third shelf, above the vice, where the afternoon light reached it.
Inside were two bradawls, a roll of copper wire, and a bronze medal he never mentioned.
title-pagesectionparaparaimageTap a paragraph in the book and say what is wrong. The proposed change appears beside it, and nothing lands on the page until you accept it. Try it: the paragraphs really do select.
She married him at twenty-one, in the spring, in the church at Hovin with her mother's coat over her shoulders.
She married him at nineteen, in August, in the church at Hovin with her mother's coat over her shoulders.
Place them in the text column, across a full page, or across the whole spread.
inlinepagespreadEvery chapter narrated, start to finish. The audiobook is the second thing your family keeps, and it is included.
He kept the tin on the third shelf, above the vice, where the afternoon light reached it. Inside were two bradawls, a roll of copper wire, and a bronze medal he never mentioned. I was allowed to hold the medal on Sundays, over the bench, in case I dropped it.
The same pages the printer gets, spread by spread, before anything is bound.
He kept the tin on the third shelf, above the vice, where the light from the yard window fell across it in the afternoon. It had held pipe tobacco once, and still smelled faintly of it.
62Inside were two bradawls, a roll of copper wire, and the bronze medal he never once mentioned. My mother knew about it. Nobody else in the house did.
63Invite the family by name or share one link. When the book is right, we print it and post it to you.
Eight to twelve sessions on average. 30 to 45 minutes each. By voice, on your schedule, over six to twelve weeks.
A broad conversation about your whole life. We use it to sketch the chapters (childhood, family, work, the turning points) and plan the sessions ahead.
One chapter per session. We ask follow-up questions to capture the details: names, dates, what happened, what you remember.
We write each chapter and send it to you. You read it, mark anything wrong, and we revise. Once you're happy, we print the book.
One book, one price. Everything it takes to make the hardcover, her real voice kept for the family, and nothing to remember every month.
No card to start. We charge when you order the book, and refund in full after the first session if it isn't for you.
Every dollar is a real competitor's real price. You pay $199, one time, the founding rate while we print the first ten books.
If yours isn't here, email hello@yourtale.art.
One book, written from your own words, for your family to keep. $199, one-time. Ready in six to twelve weeks. Full refund after the first session if it isn't for you.