Echoes Family Biography
You record the conversations. Echoes makes the book.
Sit down with one person you love. Ask, listen, follow the stories where they go, and record up to five total hours after purchase and consent. Echoes prepares a first-person biography, reviews it, and turns it into a printed 6×9 book.
$98
Paid in full for one Family Biography.
For one primary storyteller
Recordings, photographs, consent, and family details come after purchase, not at checkout.
A life does not arrive in perfect order.
It arrives as a childhood home, a first job, a familiar joke, a choice that changed everything.
You do not need to make it complete. You get to be there for the telling. Echoes gives those recorded conversations a clear, readable shape your family can hold.
A shared process
Your conversation. Our editorial care.
You lead the interview. Echoes prepares the biography through an assisted editorial process and human quality review.
Your part
Complete the storyteller consent and customer authorization after purchase.
Use the Interview Kit to prepare for the conversations.
Record one primary storyteller in one sitting or several, up to five total hours.
Choose up to ten digital photographs and complete the short family-details worksheet.
Echoes’ part
Transcribe and organize the material into a first-person narrative.
Prepare approximately 8–12 chapters, depending on the material.
Review for structure, readability, voice consistency, repetition, and obvious transcription errors.
Prepare the proof, printed book, and final files.
What your family receives
A real book, and the files behind it.
One considered biography, prepared from the conversations only your family can have.
Up to five hours
One primary storyteller, recorded in one sitting or several.
Approximately 8–12 chapters
The final chapter structure depends on the material.
Up to approximately 25,000 words
A maximum, not a target or promise.
Up to approximately 100 interior pages
Standard 6×9 design with a color cover and black-and-white interior.
One proof and one corrections round
For factual corrections before the book is finalized.
Print and digital delivery
One printed copy with free standard U.S. shipping, plus the final PDF and customer-owned manuscript files.
Word and page counts are maximums, not guaranteed lengths. Echoes does not promise a complete or definitive account of a life. The book reflects the stories and material the family provides.
The useful details
Clear before you begin.
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After you purchase the Family Biography and the required storyteller consent and customer authorization are signed. The paid project begins with a new set of recordings.
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No. Keep them as family keepsakes. They can also help you decide what you want to ask next, but recordings submitted for the paid Family Biography must be made after purchase and signed consent and authorization.
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Up to five total hours with one primary storyteller. You can record one longer conversation or several shorter ones.
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It is not traditional full-service ghostwriting. Echoes prepares the biography from the conversations you record through an assisted editorial process, followed by human quality review.
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You receive one digital proof and one factual-corrections round. That round covers names, dates, places, relationships, obvious transcription errors, typographical errors, and requested removals. It is not an open-ended rewrite.
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You receive the final PDF and customer-owned manuscript files, along with one printed copy.
The boundary matters
The Family Biography is deliberately family-led.
Echoes does not conduct the interviews for the $98 Family Biography. You get to ask, listen, and follow the conversation yourself. Families who want Echoes to plan and lead the interviews can inquire about a Signature Biography.
The offer is built around one primary storyteller, not multiple equal narrators.
It includes one factual-corrections round, not unlimited revisions or open-ended rewriting.
It does not promise a complete or definitive account of a life.
Begin with one conversation
The stories are already there.
Once your project is started and consent is complete, a phone is enough. Sit down, ask the first question, and listen.