The book of their life, in their own words.
$49 plus sales tax, one payment. They answer by writing or by talking, and nobody rewrites a word. The code reaches you by email the moment you pay. 30-day money-back guarantee.
He was a quiet man but he sang.
Ruth Ellen Mercer
The sample book
Pages from “a life told word for word”, by Ruth Ellen Mercer, born 1946 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Ruth is an invented narrator. Everything else on these pages is real: the typesetting, the contents page built from her own titles, and the A5 size ready to print.
Read the whole bookWord for word
What you say is what gets printed, exactly as you said it. Nobody rewrites your sentences or makes anything up for you.
Where we use AI, and where we don’tThe eight chapters
- IWhere I come from
- IIChildhood
- IIIGrowing up
- IVLoveoptional
- VWorkoptional
- VIThe family I madeoptional
- VIIPlaces
- VIIIWhat I've learned
Two covers
Two covers, lettering only: your name as large as the title of a novel, or the title itself as the picture. You choose at the end, when the book already exists, and you can change your mind afterwards.
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Price
$49
One payment. Try it first: answer three questions free and see your book begin. Nothing to cancel, nothing renews.
Sales tax is added where your state applies it, and you see the total before you pay.
What's included
- Your book as a PDF, A5, ready to print wherever you like.
- No limit on how many questions you answer.
- No subscription and no expiry date: the file is yours for good.
- 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked, even after you download.
What this is
You answer questions about your life, writing or speaking, at whatever pace suits you. What you said is set into a book — A5, typeset, with its chapters and its contents page — and you download it as a PDF and print it anywhere. Twenty-one questions are enough for a whole book, and they fit in an afternoon if you feel like it.
How it works
You answer, one at a time
One question whenever you feel like it. Speaking or writing. It saves itself, and you can stop and pick up again another day.
You watch your book grow
From the first answer there is already a book, typeset and with its contents page. The first three questions are free; with one payment you can read all of it and download it.
You take it with you
Download the PDF and print it wherever you like, as many times as you like. It’s yours.
Word for word
We don’t write in your voice. No machine drafts, rewrites or polishes your answers: they only transcribe what you say and take a title from your own words. We don’t train models on what you tell us either.
Where we use AI, and where we don’tNo small print
- One payment, no renewal
- The file is yours, for good
- What you said is what’s printed
The gift
It can be given: you buy a code, the other person answers, and the buyer never sees a word of the book.
It saves itself. You can answer one question today and pick up again in March.
Read the sample