A gift for your mother or father
OriginStories interviews your parent in easy twenty-minute conversations, one chapter of their life at a time, and turns it all into a printed book their grandchildren will read for the rest of their lives. Nothing to type, nothing to install. They just talk.
Other services mail your parent a question a week and wait for them to type. Ours talks with them — and asks the follow-up questions a good biographer would.
The interviewer goes one chapter at a time and comes back for a second visit, which is when the stories behind the stories come out. Families tell us the first chapter alone had things they never knew.
You, your siblings, and old friends each get a twenty-minute interview of your own. Your memories of them are woven into their chapters.
Eighty to a hundred and twenty typeset pages, in their own words, as a printed paperback shipped to their door. Extra copies for every grandchild at printing cost plus a few dollars.
From the first conversation to the finished book — no apps, no homework, no pressure. Just talking.
A gentle interviewer meets them when it suits them — twenty minutes at a time, one chapter of their life per sitting, nothing to type. It listens the way a good grandchild would, and it asks the second question, and the third.
Every sitting picks up exactly where the last one ended. “Last time we talked about your years in the Navy. Ready to continue?” No repeating, no starting over.
Children, siblings, and old friends get their own interview link. Their memories are woven into the chapters alongside the storyteller’s own.
Chapters arrive as they’re written. Your family reads, corrects names and dates, and approves each one — nothing is printed until you say so.
A beautifully typeset paperback — origins, work, love, the hard years, what they know now — shipped to their door. Made to be read for generations.
Dad hasn’t stopped talking about his sittings. He told stories none of us had ever heard — sixty years of them. Reading the first chapter, I heard his voice on every page.
My grandmother doesn’t use a smartphone and she didn’t need to. She just talked. Watching my mom and her sisters add their own memories to the chapters was the best part.
I bought this for myself, honestly. Twenty minutes at a time, it walked me through my whole life in order. My kids will have answers to questions they haven’t thought to ask yet.
Everything included for a single one-time payment: unlimited interview sittings, up to three contributor interviews with family and friends, your family’s review of every chapter, and a printed paperback copy shipped to their door.
Want more voices in the book? Add as many extra contributors as you like for $19 each — a sibling, an old friend, the whole choir.
30-day make-it-right guarantee. Unredeemed gifts refunded in full.
Additional contributor voices beyond the three included: $19 each.
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