Memoirs
Preserve your legacy of life stories in a private-edition memoir based on personal interviews. You can rely on discretion as you tell your story your way. Options include adding photographs and private publication. Hawley will also work with authors of commercially published memoirs. And her own memoir is in the works.
Memoirs in Estate Planning
Some attorneys ask clients to complement their will with a memoir to set financial decisions in a context that may reduce risk that a legal will will be contested. In any case, a memoir is a precious family gift.
Memoir Pricing
For a professionally written, private memoir, the investment covers twelve hours of recorded telephone interviews plus transcription, writing, editing, and research (to check facts and fill in details). Clients who prefer face-to-face interviews pay for Hawley's travel expenses. For editing of a memoir you have written, choose an overview of suggested improvements or line editing; research is optional.
A letter of agreement sets the terms of your professionally written, private memoir in a Word file with a printed copy and a disc containing the manuscript. The fee is due in three installments: (1) before the work begins, (2) when the interviews are complete, and (3) within two weeks of your receiving the manuscript as a Word file.
Privately publishing your memoir is optional and can include photographs. Hawley will suggest publishers who offer different features—from paperback books to leather-bound heirloom editions. For a modest fee, she will act as project manager. The publisher you choose bills you directly for turning your memoir into a book.
Terms for co-aithoring or ghostwriting a commercially published memoir are negotiable.
