You record the conversations. Echoes makes the book.
Interview someone you love in your own time. Send Echoes up to five hours of recorded conversations with one primary storyteller, along with a few family details and up to 10 digital photographs.
Echoes organizes the material into a first-person biography, reviews it carefully, sends you a digital proof for factual corrections, and prepares one printed book along with the final PDF and manuscript files.
$98, paid in full
The stories are already there. The book usually isn’t.
Most families have someone whose life would make a good book. What they do not have is a tidy, chronological account waiting to be printed.
They have memories that arrive out of order, dates that become a family group project, and stories that only surface when someone thinks to ask.
Echoes gives families a simpler path. You have the conversations. We help turn them into the book.
Your part
Use the free Interview Kit to plan the conversations and choose the questions that matter most.
Record one primary storyteller in your own time, complete the family-details worksheet, provide the required consent, and select up to 10 digital photographs.
Our part
Echoes transcribes and organizes the recordings through an assisted editorial process.
A real person reviews the biography for structure, readability, voice consistency, repetition, and obvious transcription errors before the proof is sent to you.