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At home in the San Juan Islands, WA, Hawley works with clients coast to coast and is also writing her third novel. |
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Custom Memoirs For Families Coast to Coast
Why Commission Your Custom Memoir?
Your memoir is a legacy that can:
- Ensure that family history, stories, and beliefs are available now and in the future.
- Strengthen estate planning by providing context for provisions of a last will and testament.
- Preserve principles and goals for heirs, trustees, and board members involved in a family business.
- Express in a thoughtful and lasting way both concern and respect for family.
How Does a Custom Memoir Become a Reality?
You and Hawley can work together regardless of where you live, because she is experienced in both telephone and in-person interviews. Your life story becomes a professionally written custom memoir through these steps:
- You explore with Hawley your memoir goals in a complimentary consultation on the telephone or in person.
- After conversational recorded interviews in person or on the telephone, Hawley weaves material from the recorded interviews into a narrative in your voice, telling your story your way.
- You read the manuscript of your legacy memoir and can make changes and add photographs.
- Your manuscript and photographs are published privately by a small press experienced in producing archival-quality books with such details as linen, silk or leather covers; silk endpapers; satin bookmarking ribbons; and slipcases that match the cover. Each memoir is customized to suit the client. Standard hardcover or paperback bindings are also available at reasonable prices and can be sold at online booksellers.
What Investment Does a Custom Memoir Involve?
Your investment in, and options for, a custom memoir typically involve:
- Up to twelve hours of recorded conversational interviews in person or on the phone. (Those at a distance who request in-person, rather than telephone, interviews pay Hawley's travel expenses.)
- A few hours for reading the manuscript, providing photographs, and, later, for approving the book pages before publication in an heirloom edition.
- $1 per word for a professionally written and edited manuscript of from 7,000 to 30,000 words with photographs, plus payment to the publisher of about $500 to $7,000, depending on book features and number of copies.
Your Story Told Your Way
Because Hawley is the author of both novels and nonfiction books, she can turn interviews for a legacy memoir into a literary narrative. As a professional editor, she also can make a legacy memoir sound like the person whose story it is while organizing and polishing the narrative.
Confidentiality is honored. Two women have mentioned to Hawley first husbands their families didn't know about. Later, one decided to delete the information from her memoir, while the other decided it was time her daughters knew about her earliest marriage.
The person telling the story controls what to include in, and what to omit from, a legacy memoir.
"Interviewing my mother for her memoir, Hawley was professional, flexible, and very sweet." — Kirsten Bickford, St. Helena, CA
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