Memoir ghostwriting: your life story, told the way you tell it.
A memoir ghostwriter turns your memories into a structured, readable book — through recorded conversations, not homework. You talk; we listen, shape and write in your voice. For the world, or just for the grandchildren. Either way, it's 100% yours.
What makes memoir different?
Interviews, not questionnaires
Your memories live in conversation, not forms. We work through recorded interviews — gentle, structured, at your pace — and mine them for the scenes and details that make a life readable.
Structure from a lifetime
A life isn't a plot. The craft of memoir is choosing the throughline — the theme that turns seventy years into a story someone can't put down — without flattening the truth.
Patience with hard chapters
Grief, conflict, regret: the chapters that matter most are hardest to talk about. Our memoir specialists are chosen for empathy as much as prose, and nothing is printed without your approval.
the process →Two kinds of memoir clients
The legacy author
You want your story preserved for family — the war years, the migration, the business built from nothing. A private book, beautifully made, printed for the people who matter.
The publishing author
Your story has an audience: survival, reinvention, a life inside an industry or an era. We write it for readers and can carry it to publication on every major store.
publishing services →Either way: your rights
100% of the copyright, royalties and credit via signed work-for-hire agreement. Your name on the cover, your story under your control.
rights explained →What does it cost?
Fixed packages from $2,850 — published, explained, benchmarked
Basic (ghostwriting only) from $2,850 · Professional (+ editing & formatting) from $3,950 · Premium (done-for-you, published) from $5,500. Memoir projects include interview time at no extra charge. Independent benchmarks (Reedsy, EFA) put a professionally ghostwritten 30,000-word book at $7,500–$15,000. See the full rate card.
Asked and answered
How does memoir ghostwriting work?
Through recorded interviews. You talk — about the years, the people, the turning points — and your ghostwriter shapes those conversations into a structured life story in your voice. You approve the first chapter before the full book is written, and every chapter after.
How much does a memoir ghostwriter cost?
From $2,850 for ghostwriting only, up to $5,500 fully published. Interview-heavy projects with extensive material may be quoted individually — always in writing, before work begins.
What if my story is private or painful?
Confidentiality is contractual, an NDA is available on request, and nothing goes in the book without your approval. Many memoirs are written purely for family and never published — that's a service we're proud to offer.
I'm not famous — is my story worth a book?
Famous people's memoirs get written because publishers expect sales. Everyone else's get written because the story matters to someone — children, grandchildren, a community, or readers who lived something similar. That's reason enough.
Your story is already written. You lived it. Let's put it on paper.
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