From conversation to biography.
You do not need to be a writer, interviewer, or historian. Echoes gives your family a calm way to begin, then prepares the recorded stories as a book.
Six clear steps.
The family leads the conversation. Echoes gives it structure, shape, and a form you can hold.
Get the Interview Kit
Use the free guide to prepare the setting, record simply, choose questions, and listen well.
Record the conversations
Interview one primary storyteller on a phone, in one sitting or several, up to five hours in total.
Send the material
Share the recordings, a short family-details worksheet, up to ten digital photographs, and the required consent and authorization.
Echoes prepares the biography
An assisted editorial process turns the conversations into a first-person manuscript, organized into approximately 8–12 chapters depending on the material.
A real person reviews it
Echoes reviews the structure, readability, voice consistency, repetition, and obvious transcription errors.
You review and receive
After one digital proof and one factual-corrections round, Echoes delivers one printed 6×9 book, the final PDF, and the manuscript files.
The storyteller’s voice stays at the center.
Echoes shapes what was recorded into a clear, readable biography. It does not invent scenes, conduct independent research, or present the book as a complete and definitive account of a life.
A phone, a few details, and time to listen.
Everything beyond checkout is collected later, during onboarding, so beginning the order stays simple.
Up to five hours
One primary storyteller, across one or several conversations.
Names and photographs
A short worksheet plus up to ten digital photographs.
Care and permission
Storyteller consent and customer authorization before the material is prepared.
The story determines the book.
The Family Biography may be up to approximately 25,000 words and up to approximately 100 interior pages. Those are ceilings, not promises.
Echoes does not pad a manuscript to reach a number. The final length depends on the substance and clarity of the conversations.
Begin with the person, not the paperwork.
A phone is enough to begin.