MemoirMaster™ · Your life story, made into a book
Write it yourself with a step-by-step system, or simply tell your stories and let us write the book with you. Either way, your family ends up with the book.
Free two-minute quiz · No writing required
Why most life stories never become books
You've carried these stories for decades. The ones you tell at dinner, on long drives, at family gatherings. Your children have heard some of them. Your grandchildren might have heard a few. But the whole story, with all its weight and humor and quiet triumphs, still lives only in your head.
Maybe you've tried. You opened a notebook, stared at the first page, and wondered where to even begin. Or maybe you've never wanted to write a word. You'd just love to tell it to someone who knows how to turn it into a book.
Both are completely normal, and both are why MemoirMaster exists. Some people need a clear path so they can write it themselves. Others need someone to listen and do the writing. We do both.
Three ways to get your memoir written
Every path uses the same proven storytelling structure. The only difference is who holds the pen.
The book + workbook
Two books, one system. How To Write A Memoir: Step-By-Step teaches the method. The Life Story Journal & Workbook builds your manuscript as you answer its prompts.
For people who want to write every word themselves.
See the Books
Done with you
Tell your stories in a series of relaxed, recorded conversations. We shape them into chapters written in your voice, and you approve every page.
For people who'd rather talk than type, or who want a parent's story captured.
How It Works
Done for you
A finished, publication-ready book with as little of your time as possible. In-depth interviews, chapter-by-chapter review, and a manuscript formatted for print.
For people who want a premium, fully handled experience.
Learn MoreNot sure which fits? Take the two-minute quiz and we'll recommend one.
How the Guided Memoir works
Over a series of relaxed video calls, we guide you through your life with the right questions, in the right order. Every conversation is recorded, so nothing is lost.
Your stories are shaped into chapters using the MemoirMaster structure, written the way you naturally talk, so it sounds like you on your best day.
You read every chapter and tell us what's right and what's missing. Nothing goes in the book until it feels true to you.
Talk with Justin. A free, no-pressure call about your story and what you'd like the finished book to be.
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Meet the author
I'm a marine engineer by trade, which means I think in systems. When I became fascinated by why some stories stay with us for a lifetime, I went looking for the system behind them.
I spent years studying the frameworks behind the stories that last, from Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey to the techniques behind great memoirs and films, and built them into one simple method made just for memoir. That method is my book, How To Write A Memoir: Step-By-Step, and it's the backbone of every MemoirMaster memoir.
The people with the best life stories are almost never the ones who know how to write them down. I built MemoirMaster to change that.Read my story →
The method behind every book
Whether you write it yourself or we write it with you, the same four timelines sit underneath your story.
The shape of your story. Where it begins, where it turns, and where it ends.
What happened. The outer journey, stage by stage.
What changed inside you. The inner journey running underneath every event.
The people who shaped you. Who stood beside you, and who stood in your way.
What you'll walk away with
A finished memoir with a beginning, a middle and an end, built on the same structure readers have loved for thousands of years.
Not a stranger's version of your life. Your words, your humor, the way you actually tell it.
Something your children and grandchildren can hold, read, and pass down long after the stories would have faded.
“Fifty years from now, someone in your family will wish they could hear your voice. Your memoir will be there.”
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Not sure where to start?
Six quick questions, and we'll point you to the simplest way to get your story into a book.
No writing required.
