We mail her a microphone. Each question appears in big letters and is read aloud. She answers from her favorite chair, and she approves every chapter.
Give Mom her bookfrom $199The certificate is the gift on Christmas morning. Her book is made after, with her.
“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 her last answer.
Nothing is printed until she approves it.
Written, typeset, printed, and bound.
We write it as a story, not a transcript, and keep the way she says things.
“She 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 she spent it on me.
From a sample chapter, “The Winter Kitchen”She remembers out of order, the way everyone does. We gather every story and arrange the whole life into chapters.
We look up her time and place, and ask about it.
The family adds their own. She hears each one at the right moment.
The Keepsake, from $199. The Life goes further: up to 280 pages.
Near the end, she speaks a letter to the people she chooses. It is printed in her book with a small code. Scan it, and they hear her 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 her life, in a hardcover she will keep by her chair.
Room for more of her life: a longer interview and a fuller book.
The family edition, made to be passed down.
A PDF the minute you pay·her name, yours and your note·the code opens her book·or we email her on the day
No shipping deadline to miss.
One number she calls from her own phone. Whenever something comes back to her, at 2 a.m. or three days later, she calls, talks, and hangs up. We add it to the right chapter.
Something else on your mind? Email us at hello@sagaseal.com.
Private until it’s printed. Your page never shows what she has said. The family reads it when the book is printed.
Yes, and she checks. She reads every chapter first, and we revise any that doesn’t sound right until she approves it. You read it when the finished book is in your hands. Until then, your page shows each milestone, never the words.
No. If she is, she does it on her own, whenever it suits her. If she isn't, make it an afternoon together: clip the microphone on her, sit beside her, and press Next when she has finished talking. The questions appear in big letters and are read aloud. A computer, tablet, or phone all work.
No. Every edition comes with two clip-on microphones. Clip one on and talk from a comfortable chair: every word is picked up clearly, no leaning into a laptop. Two in the box, so one charges while the other is worn. They plug into most computers, tablets and phones. Shipped free, usually within a few days. You can start before they arrive.
There’s no pressure. We invite her warmly and let her decide. If she’d rather not start, you can get a full refund until 30 days after she opens her gift (at the latest, 4 months after you bought it).
Her words are hers. Her stories and transcripts belong to her, even if she never publishes.
No. She doesn’t have to write. Those are fill-in books she writes in herself. Here she talks, our AI interviewer asks the next question from what she just said, and we write her book. She approves every chapter.
No. No two interviews are the same. Our AI interviewer listens to each answer and asks the next question from it: a name she mentions, a place, a year. While she talks, we also look up the towns and years she names, so her book carries the world she grew up in.
Her words lead; AI helps. We build every chapter from what she tells us, in her own phrases, and AI helps shape the writing on every edition. She reads and approves every chapter, and real people print and bind the books.
Yes, and so can the family. You add yours when you order, and everyone you invite to the family room can add one, with their name or anonymously. Our interviewer brings each one up at the right moment. If she wants to talk about it, it goes in her book.
A few weeks of easy conversations, at her 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 her own pace. Then the books are printed and shipped. Giving it on a date? Print the certificate the moment you order; the book follows.
Very little. Choose the edition, write your note, and tell us how to reach her. We take it from there. You don’t conduct the interviews, write the book, or manage the printing.
As a certificate you can print tonight. Every edition includes one, ready the moment you order, and the StoryMics follow in the mail. The interview starts on our website right away, from the certificate or our email invitation.
No. On Christmas morning you give the certificate. She tells her story in the weeks after, and the book follows.
Yes. Any edition can be split into three payments, two weeks apart, with no interest and no fee.
She tries it first, and you’re covered. Before she starts: ask any time until 30 days after she opens her gift, and we refund you in full.
After her first conversation with Anna: if it isn’t for her, 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 she is never stuck. If she runs out of time or energy, she can finish early and we write a shorter book from everything she has told us so far. Or she can pause, and her story waits for her. Nothing is lost.
Once she approves her final proof and her 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.
You give the invitation. She tells the story from her favorite chair, one question at a time. We write it, print it, and bind it.
