Commissioned Personal History · Family & relationships

My Father’s Story

A portrait of a father’s beginnings, work, relationships and private interests.

Standard edition · $99.00

20-page designed PDF using your supplied finished draft, up to 3,500–5,000 words; title and dedication, edited text, selected chronology and permitted photo captions. Accessible TXT included; DOCX reading copy on request. One private proof and one consolidated correction round within scope. New narration is not included.

Estimated 15–25 business days after complete usable materials and permissions; customer review and approved scope changes add time. Confirm gift deadlines before purchase.

Established price retained. An existing order’s purchased scope and commitments take priority.

Commission standard edition

Expanded edition · $149.00

32-page designed PDF using your supplied finished draft, up to 6,000–8,000 words; title and dedication, edited text, selected chronology and permitted photo captions. Accessible TXT included; DOCX reading copy on request. One private proof and two consolidated correction rounds within scope. New narration is not included.

Estimated 25–35 business days after complete materials and permissions; review time excluded.

Commission expanded edition

The editorial assignment

one father; early life, independent pursuits and family role; up to ten milestones

Customer-supplied material only. Includes light copyediting, organization, captions and designed layout. No independent research, interviews, full ghostwriting or newly recorded narration is included. Additional work needs a separate accepted written quote before it starts.

Questions that shape your story

Who was he before you knew him as your father?
What work or hobby absorbed his attention?
Describe one ordinary moment that reveals his character.
Which stories are his own, and which came from someone else?

Fictional sample spread · all people and records invented

My Father’s Story — a fictional sample spread

Leon rarely spoke about the evening classes. His son found the exercise books after asking why an old ruler mattered. The dated pages showed a sustained effort to learn, while Leon supplied the story of arriving tired after a shift. The record could establish attendance only where a page survived. It could not prove that every late return was a class night. His family’s admiration belongs in the story as their response, not as independent evidence of every event.

This is a two-page design and writing preview, not a complete purchased edition.

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Photos, files and your own voice

Choose your own permitted photos, separately approved licensed non-identifying stock, or a typography-only design. No generated identifiable people. No new stock purchase is included.

Designed PDF and accessible TXT included. A DOCX reading copy is available on request. No printed book or physical delivery is included.

Supply written answers, your existing transcript (up to null words), or your own usable MP3/M4A recording (up to 10 minutes). Save the speakers’ consent in private intake before uploading audio. Recordings are source material for the written edition. Edited original-voice audio and verbatim interview transcription use the separately purchased Interview Companion; narration of the approved history remains included.

Review, privacy and research boundaries

Paid order, private intake with your prepared text and permitted images, scope check, light copyediting and layout, private proof, one consolidated correction round, explicit approval, final private PDF and TXT delivery. Interviews, substantial rewriting, transcription and independent research are excluded. No paid research or outside expense is authorized without a separate written quote and explicit consent; the customer pays any approved provider directly.

You approve names, exclusions and the private recipients. Living subjects and contributors must permit their material and may review their contributions. Customer files use the existing private project system; public portfolio use requires separate consent. No claim of a verified event is made from a recollection alone.

New narration is not included. You may supply a permitted recording with its matching transcript as reference material; no voice cloning or paid transcription is ordered.

Standard: one consolidated revision within the purchased scope. Expanded new editions: two. A new subject, substantial new source material or a later change of direction requires a separate accepted quote. No interview scheduling, travel, printing, archive fee, legal advice or guaranteed discovery is included.

The existing Signature Plate remains an optional separately priced physical upgrade with its own proof, approval and U.S. delivery restrictions.