Who it's for
Your parents' story, finished
This is the most common reason people come here: a parent in their seventies or eighties, an occasion coming up, and the feeling of "we keep meaning to". It is designed to make the asking easy and the finishing certain.
What makes it work
Built for exactly this.
A gift they can accept
It arrives as a message from you, in your voice: "Mum, I'd love to have your stories." Not a subscription email.
Follow-ups, not forms
The interviewer listens and asks what a good listener would. The stories get told to the end.
No clock on it
Nothing renews and nothing expires. The record stays open until the book is finished, and we step in early if it stalls.
Start here
Free, whether or not you use Tellforth.
Question listQuestions to askIn the order a good interviewer would ask themGuideHow to write a book about your motherA method for writing a book about your mother while she can still tell you the stories: what to ask, in what order, and how to turn the answers into a book she will recognise.The booksEvery kind of bookMemoir, novel, young adult, picture book, and moreOccasionMother's DayGive your mother a listener for Mother's Day.OccasionFather's DayFor Father's Day, give your father an interviewer who asks about the work, the cars, the friends and the years you were not around for, and writes the book in his voice.OccasionA 70th birthdayFor a parent turning seventy: a book of their life, told by voice over fifteen-minute visits, finished and printed in their own words.
Also for
Other people it was made for.
A book of your grandparents' storiesFor families who want a grandparent's stories told, by voice, at their pace, and written into a real book while there is time.When someone is facing somethingFor a person with a serious diagnosis, and the family around them, who want their story told on their terms, with control, dignity and no pressure.For hospice and palliative care teamsA legacy program for patients and families: dignified, controlled by the patient, and useful to the team.A book your child wrote, starring your childFor parents who want to catch a child's own stories, in their own words, and turn them into a picture book they are the hero of.The story of the company, told by the people who built itA founder memoir or company history gathered by interviewing the people who were there, in scenes, with the near-death included.A veteran's story, told the right wayFor families who want a service story recorded without re-opening wounds: ordinary first, led by the veteran, kept straight.
Tellforth
Tell it forward.
The stories are already there. All that is missing is someone to ask.
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