We mail a microphone. Each question appears in big letters and is read aloud. Answer from a favorite chair, and approve every chapter.
Whose story is it?
From $199. They try it first. Not for them? Full refund.
“We moved to Cleveland the winter I turned nine.”
What do you remember about that first winter in Cleveland?
Private until it’s printed.
A printable certificate to hand over on the day.
The next question grows out of their last answer.
Nothing is printed until they approve it.
Written, typeset, printed, and bound.
We write it as a story, not a transcript, and keep the way they say things.
“My mother had to shut the oven door to bake it, and that was the coldest hour of the whole week.”
It was the only hour all week that the oven door was closed, and my mother spent it on me.
From a sample chapter, “The Winter Kitchen”They remember out of order, the way everyone does. We gather every story and arrange the whole life into chapters.
We look up their time and place, and ask about it.
The family adds their own. They hear each one at the right moment.
The Keepsake, from $199. The Life goes further: up to 280 pages.
Near the end, the storyteller speaks a letter to the people they choose. It is printed in the book with a small code. Scan it, and the family hears the storyteller say it. Every chapter can carry one too.
“I had braced for the suffering. It never came.”
Christine L. Castle, author of the novel Vérnyúl. Before memoirs, our press helped her finish her book.
The essential stories of a life, in a hardcover they will keep by their chair.
Room for more of their life: a longer interview and a fuller book.
The family edition, made to be passed down.
A PDF the minute you pay·their name, yours and your note·the code opens their book·or we email them on the day
The certificate is the gift. The book follows, made with them at their own pace.
No shipping deadline to miss.
Something else on your mind? Email us at hello@sagaseal.com.
No. If they are, they do it on their own, whenever it suits them. If they aren’t, make it an afternoon together: clip the microphone on, sit beside them, and press Next when they have finished talking. The questions appear in big letters and are read aloud. A computer, tablet, or phone all work.
They read it before it is printed. They read every chapter first, and we revise any chapter that does not sound right before anything is printed.
Their words lead; AI helps. We build every chapter from what they tell us, in their own phrases, and AI helps shape the writing on every edition. They read every chapter before anything is printed, and real people print and bind the books.
After they have told their story, at their own pace. about 7 to 10 hours for The Keepsake, about 12 to 17 hours for The Life, about 18 to 27 hours for The Heirloom, in conversations of 45 minutes to an hour at their own pace. They read it, then the books are printed and shipped. Giving it on a date? Print the certificate the moment you order; the book follows.
They try it first, and you’re covered. Before they start: ask any time until 30 days after they open their gift, and we refund you in full.
After their first conversation with Anna: if it isn’t for them, tell us within 7 days and we refund you in full, no questions asked. Either way, you have at least 14 days from the day you bought it, and at most 4 months.
After that, there are no cash refunds, but they are never stuck. If they run out of time or energy, they can finish early and we write a shorter book from everything they have told us so far. Or they can pause, and their story waits for them. Nothing is lost.
Once they approve their final proof and their book goes to print, it can’t be refunded, unless it is faulty or arrives damaged.
Paying in three? We refund what you’ve paid and cancel the rest. Refunds go back to the card that paid. A gift box that has already shipped is not refunded.
Yes. Any edition can be split into three payments, two weeks apart, with no interest and no fee.
Whose story is it?
From $199. They try it first. Not for them? Full refund.
