Studio Package: Starting at $25k

Some accomplishments and stories deserve more than a folder or a slideshow. Story Studio creates artfully produced legacy books and media for individuals, families, institutions, and organizations, combining rigorous interviewing, skilled narrative development, editorial refinement, and elegant design, worthy of the history it preserves.

The Process
We begin with recorded interviews. These guided conversations provide the source material, along with photographs, documents, archival media, and other materials that help bring the story fully to life.

Through structured discovery at a comfortable pace, we’ll surface the core scenes, relationships, achievements, turning points, and insights that give the story its shape.

As the project develops, structure and themes will begin to emerge. From there, I’ll draft and refine the prose, creating a cohesive narrative that reflects the voice, meaning, and significance of the life, family, organization, or institution at the center of the book.

Projects are flexible in scope. A Legacy Book may center on one person, a family, a founder, a leadership transition, an organization, or an institution. The process offers participants the chance to reflect on the paths taken, honor what has been built, and give lasting form to experiences, lessons, and values that might otherwise remain scattered or undocumented.

Whenever possible, conversations take place in person. I travel to where you are. When in-person sessions are not practical, conversations can be recorded virtually.

Most projects take six months to one year to complete. Timing depends on location, scope, archival materials, and participant availability.

Key Stages

• Initial discovery conversations determining the project’s direction, voice and scope

• Guided, audio-recorded, conversations

• Transcript formatting and polish

• Original writing with structure development

• Integrating photography

• Copy editing

• Book design and formatting (Print and Digital)

• Cover design

• Copyright and ISBN registration

• Digital and print distribution

Ask About

• Adding a Companion Website to your project

• Receiving edited audio and video clips from the conversations

• Receiving a conversations-only book with edited transcripts