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by Giovanni Casali, editorial coordinator
For a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, a retirement: the story of a loved one, gathered by voice and turned into a real printed book, to place in the grandchildren's hands. The gift that does not end up in a drawer.
Because yet another object is forgotten within a month, and the story of a life is not. A book with their name on the cover is the gift that is read, reread, passed on to children and grandchildren, and every time it tells the person who receives it: your story is worth keeping. No shop window sells that.
The first is to give the journey: the person receives the gift and then tells their story, meeting after meeting, to the one who writes it. The hours spent telling it are already part of the present, and often the most beautiful part. The second is the surprise: we gather the voices of family and friends, the photographs, the memories, and the book arrives wrapped, ready to open. Two different roads to the same result: a life that becomes a book.
An eightieth birthday, a golden wedding, a retirement, a special Christmas. A real book takes months, not weeks: the interviews, the writing, the chapters to approve, the printing. The rule is simple: start early. For Christmas, start in the summer; for a fixed date, let's talk as soon as possible and build the calendar backwards.
A biography starts at 3,500 euros (6,000 for the full-length format); a shorter project, the story of one period or a single tale, from 2,500. The exact quote comes after the first consultation, free and without obligation. The full picture: How much does a family biography cost?
Months, not weeks. For Christmas, start in the summer; for a spring birthday, start in winter. If the date is close, ask us anyway: sometimes a shorter format arrives in time.
We start from the voices of those who love them: children, grandchildren, lifelong friends. What emerges is a choral portrait, and often the person, reading it, adds by themselves what they would never have told.
Yes. With print on demand the book can exist in five copies or five hundred, with no warehouse: as many as your family needs.
From the telling to the printed book: How to publish a parent's or grandparent's book
Tell us about the occasion in a few lines: the consultation is free and without obligation.
info@dualpenbooks.com
Giovanni Casali, editorial coordinator, will reply.
Want to get a sense of how we write first? Read a few excerpts.