How it works
You apply, we check that your material can carry a book, and then you choose from options we bring. The book is built from 60 minutes of your spoken content.
The path
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01
Application
Answer about 20 minutes of questions about you, your audience, and the book you want.
About 20 minutes -
02
Author’s Brief
Answer a typed set of questions about your material and what the book should do. The Brief is text, not voice.
About 15 minutes -
03
Agreement
Read the free offer agreement and accept it with your typed name.
About 15 minutes -
04
Add your recordings
Add files or a link to your archive. Your own remarks are the material for the book.
About 10 minutes -
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Book direction
Choose from three directions drawn from your words, or combine them. One round of changes is included before production.
A few minutes -
06
Cover direction
Choose one of three visual directions, or say what to change.
A few minutes -
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First Look
Choose a title, a cover, and a structure. You see them rendered together before we build the book.
About 10 minutes -
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Your book arrives
Read it in PDF, EPUB, and web.
At your own pace
Most of these steps are choices, not writing. Together they take about eighty minutes.
When we start
The Brief comes first. You accept the agreement and add your recordings in either order, and then we can begin.
We start one book at a time, on a Monday. We name your start date when you are accepted. It is not held for you; it goes to the first person who is ready. If your preparation is not in by the cutoff, you take the next opening.
What you receive
The book is built from 60 minutes of your own spoken content. You choose the book direction, the title, the cover, and the structure from options we bring.
Ten business days after we start, you receive the book in PDF, EPUB, and web. You hold the copyright, including the new material we create in production, so you can publish it, sell it, or keep working on it.
A fact-check and a sensitivity read are included. So is a plain-language agreement that sets out what the free offer includes and how we handle your material.
What comes later
After the book arrives, we invite you to four optional things, one at a time: a testimonial, approval before we use your name or words in a case study, an introduction to someone you know who might want a book, and a short conversation about the work. A no is a complete answer. A month later, we ask what you did with the book.
Paid work is available if you want the book finished for publication. It covers a full fact-check and sensitivity review, a final cover and layout, ISBN and production setup, and help putting the book in front of your audience. Your free book stands on its own.