Commissioned Personal History · Life stories

The Story of My Life

A chronological life story connecting childhood, relationships, work and later perspective.

Standard edition · $99.00

24-page designed PDF using your supplied finished draft, up to 5,000–7,000 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.

Fixed price for light copyediting and designed layout of your supplied prepared text. No interviews, full ghostwriting, independent research, transcription or new narration included.

Commission standard edition

Expanded edition · $149.00

36-page designed PDF using your supplied finished draft, up to 8,000–10,000 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 living subject; six life periods; up to twelve 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

What did home feel like before you knew other homes?
Which three choices changed the direction of your life?
Who helped you become yourself, and what did they do?
What would you like a future reader to understand about the ordinary years?

Fictional sample spread · all people and records invented

The Story of My Life — a fictional sample spread

At seventy, Ada still kept her first pay envelope inside a cookbook. The envelope established a wage and a date; her account supplied the exhilaration of bringing it home. Her childhood, working years and later family life did not unfold as a straight ascent. The story follows the choices she could explain, the people she could name, and the intervals she could no longer date. The missing years are marked, rather than filled with an imagined conversation.

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

Open designed PDF preview Download PDF sample Accessible sample text

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. Supply a matching transcript with any recording for these new editions. New narration, verbatim transcription and edited original-voice audio are excluded from their base prices. Established purchased scopes remain unchanged.

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.