If you want a detailed account of your life but writing does not appeal to you, an as-told-to life-story book or memoir is the most appropriate format. Through a series of audio-interviews, MemoryWorks Publishing will create a manuscript in your voice that reflects your personality, wisdom, and values. If old fragile photos and documents are part of your story, we’ll digitally restore those and incorporate them into your book layout along with historically relevant maps and genealogy charts. Prices for these ghostwritten books vary, depending on the number of interview hours and complexity of the project. A verbatim transcript and CDs of the unedited interviews are provided along with an edited manuscript ready for layout. THE PROCESS During our first meeting, we will give you a list of pre-interview questions. This questionnaire is important, as it provides us with specific names and dates that are important to you. It also provides us with a roadmap for your interviews. A full-length life-story usually requires ten hours of interview time. Relaxed and informal, these meetings are more like conversations than formal interviews. Typically, we schedule our interviews in two-hour segments at your home. But we can also schedule two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, if that better suits the situation. Next, a transcriber transcribes the interviews, paying particular attention to nuance and meaning. Then the editing will begin. The verbatim transcript is organized and edited into a first-person narrative that retains your true voice. When several chapters or sections have been completed, we will ask you to review them and sign off on our approach and writing style. Once the first draft has been completed, you will review it carefully, making corrections and additions. At this time, we will begin choosing appropriate photos and documents to be used in the finished book. Then it’s time for book production. AUTHOR’S MANUSCRIPTS Many books we receive have been written, edited, and proofed, and are ready for book-design and layout. Other manuscripts require extensive editing, copy-editing and proofing, as well as book-design and layout. Costs for projects like these vary, depending on the size of the manuscript and services needed. After book-layout is complete, printing and binding services are outsourced to trusted high-quality companies we’ve worked with for years. These prices vary, too, depending on book-format size, bindings (hardcover or perfect-bound books), print-quality (off-set or digital, black & white or color), paper-quality and quantities of books ordered. We oversee the process from beginning to end. ...
IN RECENT YEARS THE WORLD OF PUBLISHING HAS DRAMATICALLY CHANGED Digital printing technology with print-on-demand (POD) and distribution options provided by companies like Lightening Source and Create Space, as well as e-book options, now make it possible for authors to publish their books and retain ownership of their work. SERVICES, TOOLS, AND SUPPORT EVERY SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHOR NEEDS Presenting your book to the world can be a daunting task, but you don’t have to go it alone. Memory Works publishing can help. OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: Acquiring an ISBN (your book’s universal identification number) Helping you choose the best POD and distribution company for your book Proofreading, copy-editing, substantive editing Book design and interior formatting Cover design and layout Pre-press prep—creating print-ready files for upload Creating a book description and author bio to accompany your listing on Amazon and other online bookstores We provide one-on-one customer service you won’t find at most on-line self-publishing companies. And we’re only a phone call away! Contact us today to discuss your project and various publishing options: 928-284-0222 or by e-mail ...
TURNING WELL-CRAFTED MANUSCRIPTS INTO BEAUTIFUL, HIGH-QUALITY BOOKS Whether you plan to privately-publish your book for family and friends or self-publish and sell your book to the general public, high-quality book design is crucial. You’ve put a lot of time into creating your book, and the interior book design should reflect that. Memory Works Publishing designs books in a wide range of genres. We specialize in complex layouts for autobiographies and family histories, but we also design cookbooks, poetry books, novels, and photo books. All of our books are formatted using Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress. Cookbook Interior http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/CookbookLayoutWeb.jpg SailorsLifeInt http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/SailorsLettersIntWeb.jpg PaulaInterior http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/PaulaIntWeb.jpg DeaneBrownInt http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/DeaneBrownIntWeb.jpg archercowboy http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/ArcherCowboyIntWeb.jpg Interior1a http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/interior1a.jpg Interior2a http://www.memoryworkspublishing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/interior2a.jpg Previous Image Next Image MEMORY WORKS PUBLISHING SIMPLIFIES THE PROCESS After determining your publishing choice, we will help you decide what type of book is best suited for your end product—softcover (perfect bound) book vs. hardcover with stamped title, hard cover book with dust jacket, laminated book, or ebook. Then, taking your budget into consideration, we will help you choose the best printing, binding and distribution vendors for your particular project. We are familiar with the guidelines for short-run printers and binders and with popular print-on-demand (POD) printers such as Lightening Source and CreateSpace. We will design your book to meet the specifications required by the vendor of your choice. CREATING YOUR SPECIAL BOOK If you feel photos and documents will compliment your story, we will help you choose those, create an appropriate book design and layout, then work with you to refine it until it meets your needs. We are expert at retouching old family photos. For details visit our photo restoration page. The interior of your book will include a half-title page, title page, copyright page, table of contents, front matter sections (dedication, acknowledgments, etc.) chapter headings, chapter layouts, page number placements, headers or footers, and back matter sections such as index or About the Author page. Creating layouts for fiction, text-only memoirs, or other lightly formatted books is much simpler than it is for books with complicated layouts with a high-ratio of images to text. Prices for our interior layouts start at $3.00 per page for simple text-only manuscripts. More complex layouts including photos, illustrations and other images are priced individually. CONTACT US TODAY FOR A CUSTOM QUOTE: 928-284-0222 or use our Contact Form....
PEOPLE DO JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER The cover of your book is the first thing your reader will see, so it needs to make a good impression. Memory Works Publishing will create an appropriate, eye-catching cover that will grab your reader’s attention. We design covers and dust jackets for books of all genres. Each cover includes a full-cover spread of the front, back, and spine of your book based on your printer’s specifications, or the cover specifications of print-on-demand (POD) printers like Lightening Source and Create Space. If you need a cover for an eBook, we can do that too! PROFESSIONAL BOOK & EBOOK DESIGNS STARTING AT $150 Whether you need a simple cover for your privately-published memoir, a complex, dramatic cover for your self-published novel, or a cover to advertise your eBook, Memory Works Publishing can help. We offer three levels of cover design: * BASIC—Suitable for print and eBooks. (Ebooks, front view only.) Includes front, spine, and back, designed with images you provide, basic title treatment, and simple background. * COMPLETE—Suitable for life story and family history books, or privately-published books. Includes front, spine and back, designed with images you provide or stock image, title treatment, textured background, back cover copy, and barcode, if necessary. * COMPLEX—Suitable for self-published books. Includes a complete cover design on front, spine and back; custom photo-shopped image design, complex title treatment, complex background, back cover copy, and barcode. More complex cover designs available upon request. PROFESSIONAL DUST JACKET DESIGNS STARTING AT $400 Publishing a hard cover book? We also design dust jackets! Suitable for privately-published and self-published books, each jacket includes a front cover, spine, back cover, front flap and back flap. Prices depend on complexity of design, images used, and title treatment. Contact us for a customized quote: 928-284-0222 or use our Contact...
While a well-told life-story book or memoir preserves the narrator’s voice and stories in detail, a video or DVD presentation preserves the narrator’s actual voice and image. Years after the narrator has passed on, his/her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren can see their loved-one again and hear his/her voice. Like our book projects, all of our videos are tailor-made to fit the diverse needs of our clients. Before we begin, we schedule a complimentary consultation to determine the scope and budget of your project. THE PROCESS Before the videotape interviews begin, we’ll meet and give you a list of pre-interview questions. This questionnaire covers specific names and dates important to your story and gives us a roadmap for your interviews. During this meeting, we’ll also decide where the interviews will take place, what other places or items of interest should be filmed, and what the narrator or narrators will be wearing. Since most of our videos are filmed in the home of the narrator, we’ll choose a visually interesting area to stage the primary interviews. A typical video biography requires an hour of set-up time, three or four hours of interview time, an additional hour to film family heirlooms and choose photos to be included, and an hour of wrap-time. Like our audio interviews, our video interviews are relaxed and informal. Because of the set-up and interview time required, it’s more economical if we complete the interviews in one day. Typically, we tape for an hour at a time with 10-minute breaks in between. But we can stop and take a break whenever the narrator chooses. Depending on how many photos are edited into the final piece, the post-production (editing) time takes two or three weeks. Our local clients (or Sedona visitors) often like to sit in on these sessions and give us feedback. Once the editing has been completed, we’ll decide which media is most appropriate for your finished product. Our most popular choice, DVD, requires additional time for authoring. On the next page you can view clips from some of our projects. ...
Everyone has a story only they can tell.
Isn't it time you told yours?Do you have family stories you’d like to share with your children and grandchildren? A life story book or personal memoir about obstacles you’ve overcome, lessons you’ve learned, what you’ve accomplished?
Have you authored a genre-fiction book, non-fiction or children’s book you’d like to share with the world? Would a self-published book help build your business credibility and brand?
MemoryWorks Publishing is a service-based publishing firm specializing in elegant, privately-published biographies, memoirs, family histories, and photo books.
In addition, we provide à la carte editing, book design, cover design and layout services to writers who want to self-publish and market their books. You choose the services you want and retain ownership of your work!
