A memoir does not tell your life’s story in its entirety. It guides the reader through one aspect of your life, leaving the rest of your life’s details in the drawer. In the world of publishing, determining which thread you pull is the difference between a memoir people read and a personal diary only your family finishes.
The tape recordings reflect your long discussions with the writer. Each of the discussion sessions focuses on a single question which you have never been asked before. The focus of each detailed response is the detail unrelated to your response that the writer wants to hear.
In memoir, voice is the evidence. The account is believed because the narrator’s presence sounds like they were there. Publish that into standard prose, and all of a sudden the book doesn’t feel believable for readers though they’re not sure why.
Ask a model to write about a childhood kitchen and you get a description full of light, a warm hearth fragrant with baking bread and a grandmother’s hands. Your kitchen spoke of a broken extractor fan and a radio tuned in to the shipping forecast. The generic version reads fine and fails to convince anyone who actually lived through that experience.
We conduct four lengthy interviews to start because, rather than beginning with a rigid structure, the shape of a memoir, in our experience, comes from what you keep coming back to, and not from the chronological structure. The writer then selects a specific thread, draws where the thread begins and ends, and shows you the gaps that the book will leave behind.
Batches of drafting are done with calls in between as reading yourself will influence your recall, and later batches will sometimes need to go back to earlier batches, something that is expected. The final batch is a call to any person named that could realistically take offense.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical memoir | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short book | 20,000 | $2,000 | $20 | $2,020 |
| Standard book | 45,000 | $4,500 | $45 | $4,545 |
| Full-length book | 70,000 | $7,000 | $70 | $7,070 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes — 2 rounds are included, for 14 days after delivery, handled by the writer who wrote the piece rather than by someone new to the brief.
Fill in the order form with your brief and email address. No account needed. You get a confirmation by email, then the finished piece as a document within 3 days.
You most likely will. We flag every living person named and leave a note where an account is contested. We also give you a list with all the names before we publish the article. Your lawyer can review it then. Again, we are not your legal advisers and cannot cite what you can safely publish.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Nothing went into the book that I had not agreed to. I am eighty one, and have been talked over by professionals my whole life. This writer sent me the transcript of every session and asked which parts I wanted left out.
Two chapters about my mother that I had written as accusations turned into scenes. The writer didn’t cut anything. The writer just stopped explaining what I was supposed to feel and let the dialogue do its job. I have rewritten the rest of the book that way.
That’s the review. The next night she asked for it again, then corrected me when I misread a line. Obviously, she has memorized it. The page has a certain rhythm that seems to help people memorize things.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
CopyleaksAI detection + plagiarism
Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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$10 per 100 words · all of it to the writer · 0.5% to trees