Every family deserves a biography.
Sit down with someone you love. Ask the questions you have wanted to ask, listen, and follow the stories where they go. Echoes turns those recorded conversations into a printed family biography, reviewed by a real person and yours to keep.
The Echoes Family Biography · $98
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.
Make room for one conversation.
Echoes Legacy Interview Kit
Start with a conversation.
The Echoes Legacy Interview Kit helps you invite someone to sit down, choose meaningful questions, record clearly, listen well, and save what you hear.
It is free, and it is complete. Use it on its own, even if you never make a book with Echoes.
How to ask · Simple phone recording · Questions by life chapter · Care and consent · Saving what you record
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A family-led biography
The Echoes Family Biography · $98
You record the conversations. Echoes makes the book.
Sit down with one person you love. Ask, listen, and let the story unfold over one or several conversations. After purchase and consent, record up to five hours in total. A phone is enough.
Send Echoes the recordings and a few photographs. We organize the story into chapters, a real person reviews the biography, and your family receives a printed book and the digital files.
One storyteller
A first-person biography
Up to five hours
New conversations after purchase and consent
One printed book
6×9, with a color cover
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. Those are maximums, not promises. Echoes never pads a book to reach a page count.
Digital files
Final PDF and manuscript
How the story becomes a book.
You lead the conversation. Echoes helps you prepare, gives the recordings shape, and turns them into a book your family can hold.
01
Start your biography
Order the Family Biography and complete the storyteller consent and customer authorization. Use the free Interview Kit to prepare for the conversations.
02
Record the conversations
Sit down with one primary storyteller. Ask, listen, and follow the stories where they go. Record up to five total hours in one sitting or several.
03
Send what you gathered
Upload the recordings, up to ten digital photographs, and a short worksheet of names, dates, places, and relationships.
04
Review and receive
Echoes prepares and reviews the biography, then sends one digital proof for factual corrections. After approval, we print the book and deliver the final PDF and manuscript files.
A book your family can hold. Files your family can keep.
The conversations take lasting form in three useful ways.
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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. Those are maximums, not promises. Echoes never pads a book to reach a page count.
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.