Capturing Life Stories In Cherished Books
At StoryTerrace, we believe that every story deserves to be beautifully preserved and shared across generations. Capture your personal or business journey and share your history, experience and wisdom today.
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We create personalized books that elegantly capture the unique narratives of individuals, families, and businesses.
Our writers, editors and designers help you document precious life experiences, transforming memories into lasting legacies.
Every Life Deserves A Documented Legacy
From life lessons to travelling in the Seychelles, we cover all the colourful topics that make up life.
How It Works
Our process makes it easy for anyone to write a book. We handle the heavy lifting so that you can enjoy what will be a truly special journey.
Writer Introduction
By taking into consideration a number of factors including your goals, topics and even location we'll pair you with a writer who can echo your unique voice.
Interviews
Customers especially love the interview stage. Your writer will uncover the unique details of your story, bringing back nostalgic memories. Sessions can be done in-person or remotely at your convenience.
Book Delivery
Once you're happy with the text, we'll design, print, and deliver your hardbound, full-color books directly to you. A priceless collection of precious life stories, ready to be shared.
Books For Every Occasion
Preserve your life's journey and cherished memories in a beautifully written, timeless book.
Surprise a loved one with a truly unique gift: an immersive experience that recalls treasured moments.
Amplify your brand and solidify your thought leadership with a book that showcases your domain expertise.
Take a Look Inside Our Customers' Books
Dive into and read an excerpt for some of the books we've helped create.
The Bunny
You can't pick up a copy of "The Bunny" without immediately wanting to know more. If a picture's worth a thousand words, then this book cover is a novel in itself, speaking volumes before you even turn the first page. The book covers Williams' inspirational migrational journey to California and all the ups and downs he encountered along the way.
Can Spouses Team Up in Real Estate? We Did and Here's How!
Lashika and Anthony know many entrepreneurial spouses want to team up but aren’t sure how. Having faced this challenge themselves, they believe it’s a risk worth taking. Their success isn’t due to Ivy League education, investors, or luck—it’s the result of hard-earned life lessons. With enough drive and patience, they believe anyone can improve their business and personal life. Now, they’re eager to share their story and help others achieve success while finding balance as a real estate husband-and-wife team.
Hear From Hundreds Of Happy Customers
Over 600 Professional Writers and Editors
Our writers are journalists and authors recruited from leading newspapers, renowned publishing houses, and the most prestigious creative writing and journalism programs.
Katalin I
Katalin was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. She has three adult daughters, and two Irish Wolfhounds. Before focusing on her writing, she worked as a geriatric case manager where she had the opportunity to listen and learn about the residents’ life experiences and how it shaped them and their families. She has a BA in Social Psychology and an MA is English/Creative Writing. Her short story based on her great-grandmother’s true post-war experience won first place in Sixfold’s writing competition. She has three manuscripts written and she's recently become agented for fiction writing.
Katherine L
Katherine is a freelance writer, editor and content creator who loves a good creative challenge. Born and raised in New York City, she currently lives and works abroad in the magical city of Prague. Always a creative storyteller, Katherine has worked for women’s and lifestyle publishing, breaking news websites, B2B marketing firms and more. Her background in Anthropology provides a solid foundation for working with interview subjects, whom she handles with care. Her work can be seen on Business Insider, the Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Lonely Planet and more.
Tré M R
A storyteller with two decades of ghostwriting, PR, and branding experience, Tré is a UC Berkeley graduate and the author of “Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir,” which shares her experience of being suddenly widowed at 34 and reuniting with the teenage daughter she placed for adoption. Her bylined essays have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Red magazine, ModernLoss.com, and more. Among the topics she explores with zeal are grief, adoption, fashion, neurodiversity, and travel. Tré has visited nearly 30 countries and makes her home in Brooklyn.
Judy L B
Judy Lane-Boyer is a dedicated writer with a lifelong passion for storytelling. Since childhood, she honed her craft through thousands of words for clients, including over a decade of language translation and PR for non-profits. A passionate teacher/tutor, Judy helps mental wellness professionals, non-native English speakers, and aspiring memoirists articulate their stories. When not writing, she enjoys reading, traveling, and exploring ethnic cuisines. A lover of coffee and dreamer of hobbit houses, Judy considers central Mexico her second home and York, England, the most magical place in the world.
Anya B
Anya is a Russian-American writer and producer with over 30 film and TV projects to her name. Her debut feature, Snowbound, was screened at the Cannes Film Market in 2017 and sold internationally. Her short film, I Am Normal, has been showcased at more than 25 festivals, including Academy Award-qualifying Cinequest and LA Shorts. Anya’s versatility spans various genres and formats, but her true strength lies in her deep understanding of human nature, compassion for others, and her sharp sense of humor.
Thomas L
Thomas has ghostwritten projects for a Senate Chief of Staff, a Philadelphia Narcotics cop, and an insurance company, to name a few. He taught at Harvard under famed Professor Robert Coles, worked at DoubleTake and The American Prospect magazines, and then as an Investigator at the Innocence Project New Orleans. He has published a novel, The Ghost Detective, and a work of Non-fiction, The Trials of Walter Ogrod, which helped free an innocent man from death row in Pennsylvania, and is working on another True Crime story.
Tony R
Veteran journalist Tony Russo’s interests revolve around how small events affect the larger culture. Through this perspective, he’s developed a knack for helping people connect to personal stories. In the acclaimed podcast, “This Is War” Tony recounted combat veteran stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His latest book, “Dragged into the Light: Truthers, Reptilians, Super Soldiers and Death Inside an Online Cult” took silver for True Crime in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Both projects succeeded on the strength of Tony’s ability to contextualize actions and events that are foreign to most readers. As the editor of a weekly newsletter and podcast about the funeral industry, Tony continues finding ways to bring sense and context to esoteric topics. Tony lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore with his wife and the only of his four daughters who has yet to move out. Together they keep their dog and cats comfortable.
Brooke W
Brooke Williams is an experienced writer and journalist who has been working in the industry for close to a decade. What sets her apart from other writers is that she’s a true storyteller at heart. Her background in both theatre and journalism helps her to understand, appreciate, and empathize with others so that she is able to convey their personal message with truth and authenticity.
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Elise N
Elise Nelson is an author, editor, and mental health advocate with over a decade of experience in the publishing field. She has been the managing editor for various websites and publications and has also published multiple works of fiction and poetry. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Boise State University and is currently getting her certification in facilitating biblio/poetry therapy. When she isn’t writing, you can find Elise reading a variety of genres, from romance to literary fiction, and watching Korean dramas with her husband.
Laura W
For 25 years, Laura has written about extraordinary lives. As a case study writer for Harvard, she's interviewed captains of industry and politics, from Valerie Jarrett (senior advisor to President Obama) to Peter Neffenger (head of the TSA). But her first love is sharing poignant stories of people like Bernadette Black, whose experience as a pregnant teen drove her to upend Australia’s welfare system. Or Nadine Vogel, an advocate for special needs children—including her own. In her spare time, Laura cares for an elderly Yorkie and tools around in her red Kia Soul.
Elizabeth G
Elizabeth is a self-published memoir author, certified editor (University of Washington, Seattle) and mixed media artist. To maintain flow in the creative process, she paints when the words won’t come and utilizes various forms of media and writing styles, like visual poetry, to express story and capture a memory. Elizabeth teaches Memoir & Artistry workshops, coaches writers one-on-one and offers editorial services. She has culled more than 20 years of her own writing for her next memoir (expected in 2026) and she artfully expresses her inner world with unique formatting; she isn’t afraid of white space, indenting, writing in the margins or writing in code to infuse mystery and delight the reader. Elizabeth’s work is deeply personal and relatable, expressing the pain and subsequent joy found in healing trauma using art and story. When she isn’t writing, editing or painting, Elizabeth hosts Song & Story Open Mic events and escapes to nature for inspiration. She is also proud to be in, and partner with, the LGBTQIA+ community.
Isabella W
Isabella is a word-weaver who is here to bring better stories to life! She is a writer of stories, blogs and poems, and runs her own business as a book editor and coach. Along with an MFA in creative writing, she is a published poet and enjoys blogging on Medium. She is also the daughter of immigrant parents from China and Taiwan. In her spare time, she enjoys reading books on her Christian faith and exploring new places to eat.
Sebastian C
Sebastian has always been a storyteller; ever since he was child he has been intrigued by the power good stories hold. Creativity through writing, illustration, and other tools, is his chosen path of exploration and self-expansion. He studied Fine Arts, a Specialization in Journalism, and a Master’s in Hispanic Philology. Several of his works, articles, novels, and poems have been published in different mediums. As a Certified English-Spanish translator, he has worked on all kinds of writing projects ranging from literature to legal, from fictional to factual to biographical.
Connor D
Connor listens for unconventional explanations and enjoys telling inconvenient truths. He looks at happenings from the unpopular perspective because that is so often where the rubber meets the road. He reads Velikovsky with an open mind, knows the proper use of the phrase “begging the question,” and hopes to one day understand what they mean when they say things are often the opposite of what they are held to be. He is an only child, a husband, a father. He has been a radio DJ, a short order cook, a clown college dropout, a bartender, a college teacher, a musician, but nowadays he is a just a writer who writes in his spare time.
Melissa S
Melissa is an accomplished Writer and Fortune 50 Business Executive developing new business lines at Meta, The Walt Disney Company, and NBCUniversal. She served as a VIP ghostwriter for Mrs. Michelle Obama and was previously an Opinions Columnist and Feature Writer for the State Press under the former Managing Editor of the Onion. Her Pilot script, "From the Heart," was selected as a Semi-Finalist (Top 1% of Submissions) in the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest by Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff. She currently writes a weekly culture and media blog, "The Devil You Know." Her hobbies include equestrian sports, writing, and floristry.
Tracy O
Tracy is a former high school English teacher and newspaper editor. Her articles and photos have been published in four newspapers/magazines, covering everything from local politics to restaurant reviews to homicide investigations. She’s the recipient of a Colorado Press Association Award for best reporting. She also recently wrote a children’s book slated for publication in the summer of 2024. In her free time, she volunteers at the St. Joseph NICU in Denver, CO, holding under-snuggled preemie babies and supporting NICU parents. Her twin daughters spent three months in the same NICU after arriving almost three months early. Tracy enjoys gardening, taking her elderly Labradoodle, Woolly Bugger, on long walks, and playing pickleball, albeit poorly. She lives in Denver, CO with her husband James, and their three young children, Mack, Bonnie, & Pippa.
Sumeer M
Sumeer is a freelance writer and an aspiring filmmaker. With a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Cinema & Digital Media, learning about people and crafting a narrative based on personal experiences has become a significant part of his life. He is currently pursuing MFA at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he hopes to turn stories into feature films. Sumeer writes across all genres, ensuring that there’s a personal touch to all of them. He lives to tell stories and can’t imagine his life without it.
Simone L
Simone is a Los-Angeles based writer, actress, equestrian, photographer, and bookworm. She received her BFA in Creative Producing from Chapman University. She’s worked in film development at Walt Disney Studios, and as a documentary film festival programmer at Points North Institute. Her obsession has always been storytelling, whether she is the one writing or helping to guide the works of others. She also co-created, produced, and wrote for Urban Exodus, a podcast that tells the stories of rural change-makers around the world.
Alice H
Alice Hlidkova was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to New York City post-1989's Velvet Revolution. A self-taught journalist, she reported for Lebanon's Daily Star and covered the Arab Spring and the Iraq War. Alice then entered the tech world, studying at Carnegie Mellon and co-founding a startup. She authored "You Screwed Up!" a self-help book on entrepreneurial growth, and "Fly My Lady," an inspirational journal for women. Her fiction, including "Pretty Girl Complex," addresses modern female struggles and heroism. Alice divides her time between the U.S. and Spain.
Sadie K
A young writer from the Midwest, Sadie’s interest in storytelling began after receiving detention for her second-grade book report on The Amityville Horror. Since then, she has been obsessed with hearing and telling stories deemed “unfit for polite conversation.” She studied English and Creative Writing at Wittenberg University. Her undergraduate honors thesis is a true-crime book she wrote from interviews with an Ohio family on their time as a daily newspaper dynasty. After receiving her BA in English, Sadie worked for an international student program in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, as a middle school paraprofessional in Michigan, and is a current MFA candidate in New York University’s Fiction Program. Her work has been published in The Chamber and The Furious Gazelle magazine under the name Sadie Kraus, and she enjoys reading, writing, and eavesdropping on fellow passengers during her train commute to class in NYC.
Natalie R
Natalie Rose writes about the intersection of memory, food, and identity. Her work appears in The Rumpus, the Journal of Popular Culture, Gothamist, the Acentos Review, Freerange Nonfiction, Word Riot, and others. She is completing work on her first book Seabird, a series of CNF essays about siblings and addiction, and working on a novel about charras (Latina trick rodeo riders) in 1930s Arizona. Everyone has a story — what's yours?
Rita A
Rita is a storyteller with over 20 years of experience in branding, marketing, content creation, and filmmaking. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she has a degree in Fashion Design and Creative Writing at UCSD. She's written for newspapers and magazines and developed screenplays, blending her passion for storytelling with a love for music and cooking. Now living in Indianapolis, she's also a proud dog mom, channelling her creativity into crafting compelling narratives and exploring the beauty of everyday life.
Anna J
Anna Jones has worked as a professional writer for more than 10 years – first as a newspaper reporter and now as a marketing and communications manager for a regional nonprofit social services agency. A storyteller by training and trade, Anna enjoys interviewing and meeting new people, and finding the best ways to amplify others’ voices through her writing. Anna is a mom of three and spends any spare time she has reading.
Ana C
Ana Cobo is a Colombian-born, Mexico City-raised bilingual writer, poet, and author who loves reading novels and watching old films. Her creative journey has taken her from Paris to Los Angeles. Ana holds an associate's degree in acting and a bachelor's in Art Direction and Creative Writing from ArtCenter College of Design. As an entertainment journalist at The Hollywood Insider, Ana wrote articles about entertainment, reviewed TV/films, and used her platform to highlight the Latin(e) community. Her work explores cultural identity, delving into authentic human experiences with emotional depth.
Eddie A
Eddie currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he works as an actor and writer. Born and raised in Jefferson City, MO (one of the oft-forgotten capital cities!), Eddie attended Stephens College in Columbia, MO for his theatre education. Part of the appeal of Stephens was its long and storied history, being one of the oldest continually operating women’s colleges in the country. Yes, you read that right: Stephens is a women’s college which admits men into their arts programs–luckily for Eddie. Being a Stephens boy ensured Eddie was surrounded by sisterhood, and many of his classmates remain lifelong friends. After college, Eddie fulfilled a life-long dream in moving to New York City to pursue the arts. During his five years in the city, Eddie learned innumerable lessons, worked in every arts and real estate related field he could, and met the man he would eventually marry and with whom he would move back to Missouri (and subsequently divorce..). Eddie is intimately aware that none of our life stories go to plan in the doing, but that out of chaos comes self-betterment and knowledge. When he is not working on his biography of the Broadway titan Tammy Grimes, Eddie can be found performing, baking, spending time with loved ones–and sharing stories.
