The Legacy Book Experience
Signature Service · A Life Review & Companioning Experience
Two one-hour legacy sessions, and a printed photo book collection of stories, photographs and handwriting your family can hold.
$500
Printing, shipping, extra interviews, pages and revisions are quoted separately. Typically 2 to 4 weeks after all stories, photos and approvals are received. If you need it by a particular date, please contact me before purchasing.
After purchase, I'll email you a link to book your time.
What this is
You want the people you love to know who someone was, in their own words and their own handwriting, and right now the stories live in one person's head and the photos live in a closet. In two one-hour sessions with me, we gather it all and tell it, and I write, design, and print it as a book your family can hold.
The stories behind the photographs and the handwriting on an old recipe card are some of the most precious things a family has. The Legacy Book Experience is a life review and companioning experience. We sit together with your photographs and letters and talk about the people, places, and moments that made a life what it was. I listen, ask questions, and shape the stories so they sound like the person they belong to. We laugh, and there are usually tears. The smallest details tend to matter most.
What it can be: a life story, told by the person or about them. A family history. A recipe book with the stories behind each dish. A tribute to someone who has died. A gift for a parent or grandparent. It can hold a whole life or only the moments that matter most.
How it works. Gather: you complete a short intake form and send me your photographs and keepsakes. Remember: we meet twice for an hour. I can interview you, a loved one who's living, or someone who knew the person being remembered. Create: I write and design your book, bringing the photographs, handwriting, and stories together. Review and print: you read the proof, and your finished book is printed and delivered.
A few things to know. Your digital photos are unlimited. The pages are not, so we choose together what fits. Major changes after the proof, such as rewriting stories or reworking the layout, are an additional fee. Your timeline is confirmed when you book.
About the price. This is a life review and a companioning experience, and the book is where it lands. Sitting with someone's photos, letters, and stories can honour them and comfort the people who loved them, and the price reflects that. Every book is shaped by the life it holds, so the price and inclusions are a starting point.
Available for an additional fee: additional sessions with me, additional pages, larger sizes, extra copies, custom box, digitizing beyond 100 items, retouching and restoring of damaged photos, additional proof rounds or major revisions, and other custom options on request.
Book it for your own story, or for someone you love, living or gone.
What's included
- Two private one-hour sessions, in person or virtual
- A recorded storytelling interview
- Digitizing of up to 100 photographs, letters, cards, or handwritten documents
- Unlimited digital photographs to choose from
- Story writing and editorial design
- One 10 x 10 inch book, 25 to 30 pages, with layflat pages on archival photo paper and a matte or glossy photo cover
- One proof round for minor editorial and layout changes
- One printed copy, delivered to your door
Good for
- Milestone birthdays, parents and grandparents, retirement, anniversaries and family history.