We Make It Easy For You To Tell Your Story
StoryTerrace helps individuals, families, and companies create beautifully crafted books. From the book cover to the photos and stories, each book is bespoke and uniquely yours.
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To create personalised books that elegantly capture each individual’s unique narrative. By doing so, fulfilling the necessity to share and celebrate precious life stories.
Meet The Team Behind The Curtains
Michele Vrouvas
Michele Vrouvas
Raised in Northern New Jersey and a passionate storyteller since her formative years, Michele Vrouvas’s love for books ignited her journey as a writer and editor. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in history, Michele delved into various roles, working as a paralegal, and teacher, and eventually becoming a reporter for New Jersey Hills Media Group. In 2016, she embraced her role as a Senior Writer with StoryTerrace, undertaking the challenge of completing 30+ books, several of which have been published through Amazon/Ingram Sparks.
Michele’s commitment to helping people tell their stories has earned her praise and gratitude from clients like Jeff Kerkhoff, who praised her tireless dedication to bringing his story to life.
“Michele was instrumental in finishing my story… She was prompt in answering my texts, calls or emails. Her patience is exemplary. When I got stuck on how to do something, she would find another way to make it happen. At my age of 71 years old, technology is not easy. Michele is a superstar in my book and deserves a 10 out of 10 …I highly recommend working with her on your story!”
Michele’s expertise in memoirs, personal growth, and bespoke projects has left an indelible mark on each storyteller’s journey, such that many clients return to write a second and even a third book with StoryTerrace.
Michele Vrouvas
Raised in Northern New Jersey and a passionate storyteller since her formative years, Michele Vrouvas’s love for books ignited her journey as a writer and editor. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in history, Michele delved into various roles, working as a paralegal, and teacher, and eventually becoming a reporter for New Jersey Hills Media Group. In 2016, she embraced her role as a Senior Writer with StoryTerrace, undertaking the challenge of completing 30+ books, several of which have been published through Amazon/Ingram Sparks.
Michele’s commitment to helping people tell their stories has earned her praise and gratitude from clients like Jeff Kerkhoff, who praised her tireless dedication to bringing his story to life.
“Michele was instrumental in finishing my story… She was prompt in answering my texts, calls or emails. Her patience is exemplary. When I got stuck on how to do something, she would find another way to make it happen. At my age of 71 years old, technology is not easy. Michele is a superstar in my book and deserves a 10 out of 10 …I highly recommend working with her on your story!”
Michele’s expertise in memoirs, personal growth, and bespoke projects has left an indelible mark on each storyteller’s journey, such that many clients return to write a second and even a third book with StoryTerrace.
Tilly Barickman
Tilly Barickman
Born in Central Florida, Tilly crawled from the swamp to study literature at Bard College. Her focus on the literature of the Middle Ages first sparked her interest in preserving life stories for future generations. Outside of work, Tilly writes horror fiction and is attempting to visit every state in the US.
Tilly Barickman
Born in Central Florida, Tilly crawled from the swamp to study literature at Bard College. Her focus on the literature of the Middle Ages first sparked her interest in preserving life stories for future generations. Outside of work, Tilly writes horror fiction and is attempting to visit every state in the US.
Alex Evangelist
Alex Evangelist
Alex lives in Chicago, via New York, Los Angeles and Texas. He brings to StoryTerrace sales experiences from the coffee, real estate, music and oil & gas industries. He enjoys a nice, smooth sales cycle. He also likes listening to the Beastie Boys with his 6 year old.
Alex Evangelist
Alex lives in Chicago, via New York, Los Angeles and Texas. He brings to StoryTerrace sales experiences from the coffee, real estate, music and oil & gas industries. He enjoys a nice, smooth sales cycle. He also likes listening to the Beastie Boys with his 6 year old.
Erin Miller
Erin Miller
Erin began her sales experience as a Brownie selling Girl Scout cookies in 1986. She loves forming relationships with every person who crosses her path, and with a writing background, she is well suited to empathetic listening. This gives her a knack for partnering people with goods and services that will benefit them greatly. In her free time, Erin enjoys hiking with her pit bull, painting, candlemaking, writing, and reading.
Erin Miller
Erin began her sales experience as a Brownie selling Girl Scout cookies in 1986. She loves forming relationships with every person who crosses her path, and with a writing background, she is well suited to empathetic listening. This gives her a knack for partnering people with goods and services that will benefit them greatly. In her free time, Erin enjoys hiking with her pit bull, painting, candlemaking, writing, and reading.
Lauren Dover
Lauren Dover
Lauren was born and raised in the Midwest of the United States. She is great at building
relationships with clients by using empathy, compassion and understanding of a mutual goal.
She is an avid reader and writes contemporary romance novels in her spare time. She can
often be found travelling with her family and exploring new places.
Lauren Dover
Lauren was born and raised in the Midwest of the United States. She is great at building
relationships with clients by using empathy, compassion and understanding of a mutual goal.
She is an avid reader and writes contemporary romance novels in her spare time. She can
often be found travelling with her family and exploring new places.
Michael Panei
Michael Panei
Michael comes to StoryTerrace with a 20+ year background in sales for a leader in the home security and automation industry. He has always been passionate about helping people and providing the best service possible.
Being raised by his grandparents and recalling the stories they would tell of their childhood, he realized the importance of what StoryTerrace does and was excited to be a part of the team. On his off time he enjoys playing golf and going to hockey games. He also has two children, Haliegh and Caden.
Michael Panei
Michael comes to StoryTerrace with a 20+ year background in sales for a leader in the home security and automation industry. He has always been passionate about helping people and providing the best service possible.
Being raised by his grandparents and recalling the stories they would tell of their childhood, he realized the importance of what StoryTerrace does and was excited to be a part of the team. On his off time he enjoys playing golf and going to hockey games. He also has two children, Haliegh and Caden.
A Short History,
by Rutger Bruining
My grandfather told the most amazing stories:
Stories about the time he was asked to join training for the national football team when the regular goalkeeper hadn’t shown up, and he flew into the goal with the ball pressed against his chest. And about the time he met my grandmother, after peeking from outside through the window of his home to check if she was ‘worthwhile’. The air filled with cigar smoke, as I would listen to him tell me story after story while we played backgammon.
It was only years later that I realised the adventures of my grandparents had never been documented in any way. I couldn’t recall the details of the stories that I had imagined so vividly back in years past. If only I had written them down!
I promised myself that I wouldn’t let this happen to me and my stories.
When I started travelling by myself, I planned to capture these adventures in great detail. But I was often so absorbed in the moment that I forgot to write it all down. The notes I did take, got lost on a bumpy night bus traveling through Argentina. Perhaps writing just wasn’t for me.
However, my experiences did leave me determined to create an opportunity for everyone to record their stories, to create a moment to pause and reflect, and turn them into books in order to relive the feeling of times past later on.
Eventually, this led to the simple premise upon which StoryTerrace is based — access to biographers to create books about every person. A professional writer whose background and personality fit with the person about whom the book is written. To take a trip down memory lane to capture all of your anecdotes and turning points in your own memoir.
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