How to Publish a Memoir

Memoirs are fantastic personal projects that can provide a valuable resource for future generations of your family or even help people who have experienced similar struggles (rare medical diagnosis, career change, devastating personal loss, etc.) realize that they can survive it just like you did. Memoirs can be funny and inspiring all while teaching the world something about you and the life you've led up to this point. 

PRO TIP: Check out our handy guide, Memoir Designer, to help you organize your manuscript prior to submitting it for services! 

1. You schedule a book coaching session to get your questions answered, review your goals, and coordinate next steps, including discussing the services that would be most helpful to you based on where you are in your project. This step provides clarity and direction for the project so that there are fewer hiccups in the middle of production. 
2. We send you an invoice for the services that are most pertinent to your project so you can review them and get the chance to ask questions. 
3. We provide you with a service agreement that outlines the cost, timelines, and scope of each service that we'll be performing. Though this is our initial plan for you, you are more than welcome to add or remove services as we go.  
4. After all the services you ordered are performed, you take your finished project and upload it to the publishing platforms of your choice after following (as you choose to) the marketing guidance that we provided to you throughout the duration of the project. 
5. OPTIONAL: You write a review for us in which you show off your beautiful book so we can share it with our audience and bring even more readers to your project! 

Our Memoirists

By taking a look at the memoirs we've helped with in the past, you can see the kind of work that we do. If you're looking for a finished product like the ones below, Get Book Help will be the partner you need! 

Donovan Gardner's The Boy Inside the Man

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Tenesha's background as a psychotherapist was key to helping Donovan be open and vulnerable both with her and on the page. Writing about any kind of trauma can be massively helpful to other victims. It lets them know that they aren't alone and describes how others have coped with similar physical and intangible wounds. But expressing it at all—let along to complete strangers in the general public—means reliving it and baring your innermost vulnerabilities to people you'll probably never meet. It takes patience, compassion, and care to handle these kinds of stories with the respect they deserve! 

Earl "Duke" Williams' The Duke of Magic Fingers 

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This passion project was both delightful and challenging! In today's world, we're so used to doing things quickly and nearly effortlessly with the help of technology. But when Mr. Earl came to us, he did so with a call on a landline phone and a dream on his heart! Whereas some other agencies may have turned him away or even told him to go find someone local to work with, our response was, "We'll make it work." 

A few months later, after various phone calls, postal mail shipments, and revisions, Earl Hopkins Williams become a published author for the first time. This was a "bucket list" item for him. Fame was the farthest thing from his mind. He simply wanted to share some of the amazing things that he had done and people he was able to work with throughout his musical career and that mission was accomplished. 

We're so happy and proud to have been part of that process!