Every family deserves a biography.
Interview someone you love and record the conversations. Echoes turns them into a printed family biography, organized into chapters, reviewed by a real person, and yours to keep.
BiographyIn their own voice
The stories are already there.
They surface at the kitchen table, on a drive, or in the middle of a familiar story. A childhood home. A first job. The people they loved. The choices that shaped them.
You do not need to gather a whole life at once.
The Echoes Family Biography — $98
Sit down with one person you love and let the story unfold over one or several conversations, up to five hours in total. A phone is enough to begin.
Send Echoes the recordings and a few photographs. We organize the story into chapters, a real person reviews it, and your family receives a printed biography and the digital files.
How the story becomes a book.
The family leads the conversation. Echoes gives it structure, shape, and a form you can hold.
Record the conversations
Use the free Interview Kit to prepare. Record one storyteller on a phone, in one sitting or several, up to five hours in total.
Send what you gathered
Upload the recordings, up to ten digital photographs, and a short worksheet of names, dates, places, and relationships.
Echoes prepares the biography
Thoughtful technology handles the repetitive work. Echoes organizes the story, and a real person reviews the biography before it goes to print.
Review and receive
You receive one digital proof and one factual-corrections round. Then we print the book and deliver the final PDF and manuscript files.
A book your family can hold. Files your family can keep.
The story arrives in three useful forms.
The biography
A first-person narrative in your storyteller’s voice, organized into approximately 8–12 chapters depending on the material.
The printed book
One standard 6×9 book with a color cover, black-and-white interior, and up to ten photographs.
The files
The final PDF and manuscript files are yours to keep, print, and share with your family.
A note on length: Every interview is different. The biography may be up to approximately 25,000 words and 100 interior pages, depending on the substance and clarity of the recordings. Echoes never pads a book to reach a page count.
Echoes began at my grandparents’ table. Over three days, we moved through childhood, work, family, and the stories that only surfaced because we stayed in conversation.
The recordings mattered. But I also wanted something my future children could open and read. Echoes exists to make that possible for more families.
Interview Kit A guide to one of the most meaningful conversations your family will ever have. Every family deserves a biography
Start with a conversation.
The Echoes Legacy Interview Kit gives you everything you need to ask, prepare, record, listen well, and save the story safely.
It is free, and it is complete. Use it on its own, even if you never make a book with Echoes.
A few practical questions.
Do I need special recording equipment?
How long will the biography be?
How much human review is included?
Can I make changes before the book is printed?
Who owns the finished files?
Prefer Echoes to lead the interviews?
Echoes accepts a limited number of Signature Biography projects for families who want us to plan and conduct the conversations and provide a deeper, more hands-on editorial experience.
Inquire about a Signature BiographyRecord the stories only they can tell.
The conversation is the experience. The biography is what your family keeps.