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 in a book today.
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We create 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, our books cover all the colourful topics that make up life.
How It Works
Our process makes it easy for anyone to create a book. We handle the heavy lifting of all preliminary activities 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-colour 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: recalling treasured moments and turning them into a book. Find out more.
Amplify your brand and elevate 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 to support you as the author with the preliminary stage of writing your book.
Stuart W
Inspired by history's great legal dropouts, Stuart trained as a lawyer before not going back to the office one lunchtime. He soon found a new home in the arts therapies where he worked as a social and artistic researcher for 25 years. Somewhere between drafting client statements, drawing out complex thoughts and feelings in health care, and listening between the lines of social research, he landed at the simple joy of shaping people's stories so that they can be shared with others. Over the years he has written a PhD thesis, a full length academic book about music, health and society; original research papers published in leading international journals, major reports, and numerous chapters for text books. As a ghostwriter he has written blogs and opinion pieces for charities, companies and individual professionals about various corporate and creative topics, and a full length memoir which is to be published in 2025. His original novel is shaping up nicely.
Omar
Omar Ahmed is an accomplished writer with over 20 years of expertise in film and travel journalism. He is a Law graduate who has contributed to prestigious publications including Empire, Radio Times, Evening Mail, BBC Online, and Metro Newspaper. His career highlights include interviewing Bollywood luminaries and writing comprehensive travel reviews for major destinations and hospitality brands worldwide. Omar enjoys reading and loves a good thriller especially by John Grisham. He combines his passion for cinema, travel, and cultural studies to craft engaging narratives that bridge diverse perspectives and experiences.
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John
John has always enjoyed writing since he was a boy growing up by the seaside in East Yorkshire. He spent 25 years as a sports reporter on regional titles in the North of England where as well as interviewing personalities, he attended major events including the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. A fan of films, John was a runner-up in the Lloyds Bank National Screenwriting competition, while a co-authored short - ‘Bicycle’ - reached the final of the IMDb Script to Screen Award. John has self-published three novels and is working on a fourth featuring problem child Chris Roberts as he tries to make sense of adulthood.
Stephanie
Stephanie is a Creative Writing BA graduate with a 1st class degree, specialising in non-fiction. After her dissertation, focused on her great-aunt’s experiences in a Russian gulag, Stephanie worked as a freelancer: writing for video games, translating from French to English, personal comedic tales and accounts of experienced trauma. She wrote her first book aged 7, stappling the pages together and scribbling in an ISBN number on the back. Needless to say, writing is her passion. Stephanie is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull.
Charlotte
Charlotte has two History degrees, 16+ years of experience in editing and writing. She also has a non-fiction book published, it’s about people looking to move into a healing/therapy career and is half interviews and case studies, and half her own research. Charlotte has a beautiful dog, almost 12 (11 and ¾) and lives in Kent on the coast.
Amelia T
Amelia first published her writing at the age of nine. A newspaper called ‘The Fog Horn’. After a long career as an English teacher, she now lives on the Suffolk coast and can often be found wandering the shore line looking for treasure. Amelia is an experienced interviewer and listener, knowing just the right questions to capture as storytellers authentic voice She has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and has written for several national publications. Her work has tackled such sensitive topics as child abuse, endometriosis and weight loss. Amelia is currently working on her debut novel, with the assistance of her small dog Teddie.
Lorelli M
Lorelli is a professional writer for an international education company. She writes daily news and feature articles about an eclectic range of topics and people, including a 60-year-old scientist turned preschool teacher and an entrepreneurial grandmother. Lorelli, a child of the 80s, was raised in South London, where she gained a degree in Business, qualified as a teacher and juggled teaching and young motherhood with freelance writing for Scholastic. Now, she is juggling writing, writing and more writing with being beside her other long-term love: the seaside city of Brighton.
MaryAnn I
MaryAnn Ifeanacho is a Nigerian writer with a deep love for languages, psychology, and film. She is fluent in Spanish and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hertfordshire. MaryAnn has been published in the African Writer’s Magazine and the Kalahari Review. She was shortlisted for the 2011 UBA National Essay Writing Competition, the 2017 African Rubiz Prize for Prose, and, most recently, the 2023 Fab Prize for Children’s Fiction. Her novella, An Estate of Ironies, was also a finalist for the 2024 WTAW Alcove Chapbook Competition, while her short story Mykonos in Congealed Blood was published as part of Flame Tree Publishing’s African Ghost Stories Anthology in April 2024. MaryAnn is a long-distance mom to two adorable cats and currently lives in England, where she spends time teaching, traveling, writing, and daydreaming.
Hazel Y
Hazel’s ability to form connections with people is at the heart of her writing, and the stories she hopes to uncover. A former Features Editor of a vintage lifestyle magazine, Hazel loves to immerse herself in the past, and bring to life the stories that make us. She spent her childhood writing stories and making up newspapers. After gaining a 1st Class Honours degree in English, she thought she might work in real newspapers, but instead was drawn to literature, poetry and stories. She has worked as an editorial assistant, writer, editor and teacher. She has interviewed stars of stage and screen, and will never get over the thrill of seeing her name in print. She is also a yoga teacher, parent and music enthusiast with a solid knowledge of 70s rock.
Mona P
Mona has been writing and producing travel programs, documentaries, TV specials, commercials, corporate videos, and off-the-wall events for the best part of two decades. Her magazine articles have seen print in several countries, and she published a music, arts and events magazine for three years. She is a fountain of semi-useless information, and when she grows up, she’s going to be a visual artist. Mona graduated with a double degree in Psychology, and Guidance & Counselling but she never went into practice. Instead, she took her sense of empathy and excellent interviewing skills on the road to support her wanderlust. The ability to connect to people is a gift which she pays forward by writing stories that engage and encourage.
Elizabeth M
Liz has been writing all her life, and made it her profession in 2012 working as a copywriter, ghostwriter and creative editor. The holder of a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing with English Literature, and having attained a distinction in her Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Publication, she is currently working on her PhD in Creative Writing. Liz is immersed in every aspect of writing: teaching, writing and critiquing in the field. Liz is fascinated with historical and contemporary biography, as well as fiction. When not writing she loves crafting; trying her hand at sketching and painting; and photography.
Charlie T
Charlie is an author of a best-selling psychological thriller and has four cosy crime mysteries coming out this year. Her favourite part about writing is capturing the authentic voice. She studied Theology at Oxford University and has taught Latin, worked promoting literacy within a prison, and is a counsellor for a children’s charity. Charlie is a morning person and gets up at 5am to commit fictional murder. She loves coffee, carrot cake and walking in rural Leicestershire with her cavapoo, Otto.
Joanna B
Joanna has been a professional writer for many years, working as a copywriter and journalist. She spent ten years as a successful freelance writer, before retraining as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, which involved less writing but a greater appreciation of the power of words. Her most valuable insight from this work is the importance of storytelling. Everyone has a story, and everything falls into place when we understand that story. Her great joy now is turning thoughts, feelings, experiences and memories into a story that’s meaningful, coherent and satisfying.
Emily B
Emily is a writing coach and former publisher who loves working with writers and storytellers to help them realise their creative vision. Following a BA (Hons) in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing with Merit, Emily was nominated as her university’s ‘writer of the future,’ which led to a Jerwood/Arvon national award for her first book After the Rains. More books have followed, along with poems and plays. She is a book developmental editor of over two decades, occasional journalist and a one-time film maker for English PEN. Emily has a special interest in the arts for wellbeing, and her award-winning blog is Em-Phatic.
Angela N
Angela is a professional writer with an MLitt (Masters) in creative writing from the University of Strathclyde. She began her career as a playwright in the early 2000s and have written many plays for schools and festivals including the Edinburgh Festival. She regularly copywrites for commercials. She also ghostwrites for obituaries and other speeches. She is currently writing her first novel 'The Giraffe Photograph'.
Andrew C
A Yorkshireman in training by way of Chicago, USA, Andrew is a historical researcher and author with a unique specialty for telling the stories of businesses, inventors, and entrepreneurs. As the founder and curator of the Made In Chicago Museum, he has written extensively for more than a decade about the hundreds of manufacturing businesses that helped create that city’s industrial standing in the 20th century. One of those businesses, the famous candy giant Mars Inc., commissioned Andrew to write an official company history book to mark the closing of its original Chicago factory. The Mars Wrigley Candy Factory - Chicago: A Farewell Yearbook, was published in 2024. Andrew was also proud to write the first official company history book for one of the pioneers of automated music: Roll with the Punches: The Story of QRS Music (2024). Across a varied 20-year career, Andrew has always embraced the opportunity to tell previously untold story. Whether as a music journalist, sports writer, researcher, DIY museum curator, or copy-editing desk jockey, his central pursuit is the unique character of the subject and the relatable, engaging (and factually accurate!) translation of that subject’s experience. When writing about a business or organization, he takes particular care in digging beneath the usual bullet points of “About Us” company bios to find the human experiences of the people involved; the risk takers who developed an idea, overcame obstacles, and achieved something significant—be it worldwide fame or just a steady living for themselves and their family.
Allie M
As a kid Allie wanted to write stories instead of playing outside. She started copywriting in 2008, and since then she's written everything from software reports to self help books. She's helped many coaches, therapists and business leaders bring their stories to life, with practical advice their readers can use to improve their life or business. When Allie is not writing, you’ll find her watching sci-fi or hanging out with her betta fish.
Rachel B-D
Rachel grew up in Hong Kong and has experience of transitioning from one culture to another. Rachel predominantly writes narrative non-fiction and has had two pieces published in the anthology Notes from a Barren Rock. She also writes short stories and has been published online through Fairlight Books and Words for the Wild, and also in the print anthololgy In the Kitchen. She has been highly commended in a number of competitions, been published on the Mslexia website, and shortlisted for the Bridport short story prize.
Amanda L
Amanda is the author of five bestselling novels and three works of non-fiction. She holds a degree in drama, appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She researched and edited the leading directory for banks, The Banker’s Almanac, for Euromoney publications while also covering stories for them. She has written for, or contributed to, The Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan, Vagabond and Company Magazine as well as numerous online publications.
Angela H
Angela developed a listening ear as a teacher and as a hospital volunteer. She enjoys hearing people’s life experiences, believing we should all cherish what makes us unique. Her short stories have been published in Prima, Fiction Feast, Kookie, Yours and in anthologies plus articles published in The Times Educational Supplement, Stella (the Sunday Telegraph) Woman Alive, The People’s Friend, The Dalesman, Writing Magazine and newspapers. Endeavour Press published two novels. Angela leads writing classes, enjoys travel, dog walks, swimming, reading and being a member of the WI.
Hilda K
After gaining a BA (Hons) in English, Hilda studied newspaper journalism. She has had a career as a journalist and communications professional for over 20 years that has taken her to 50 countries, a visit to Chernobyl and Bosnia and working on a global campaign to ban landmines spearheaded by Princess Diana. Hilda is the author of three children’s picture books in the Donna and Dermot series, a memoir and co-author of three anthologies of poetry. She relaxes by singing in a choir, reading, yoga, meditation and hiking.
Liz G
Liz has been writing and editing books and magazines for over thirty years. She’s ghostwritten bestsellers for people on TV (Suzie Fletcher from BBC’s The Repair Shop and Florence St George from Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown) or in the public eye (sometimes you have to sign a NDA so she can’t say who!). She’s written biographies about John Lennon (Short Books), David Bowie (Ammonite) and Nelson Mandela (Hodder) - to name a few. These days Liz is mostly collaborating with others to help them turn their life stories into beautiful books. But she always has a soft spot for everyday heroes and extraordinary characters - she reckons everyone has a tale to tell. By capturing individual voices, adding little details and scattering in a few special, intimate moments, Liz gets to the heart of every story…
Danny T
Danny is a married father of four from Coventry and a trained journalist with just under a decade of experience in professional writing. He is from a working class background and always secretly wished he could be a writer but assumed people like him, from where he is from, couldn't possibly make their living by writing things other people wanted to read. When he found himself out of work aged 28 due to health reasons, Danny decided to go and get some qualifications and completed a sociology degree at the University of Warwick. Since then he’s become an influential journalist, interviewed prime ministers and held powers to account all while writing to audiences of millions.
Xenia R
Xenia is a journalist, poet and neurodivergent activist. She currently working as an investigative journalist/researcher with the global journalism and production studio, ‘Project Brazen’ and regularly guests on the ‘Unpacking Neuroqueerness’ podcast. Of Russian origin, Xenia attended an international school in Moscow before moving to London for her Bachelors in History and Masters in Digital Culture & Society (MA) from King’s College London.
Tarai C
Son of poet, author, artist and musician parents, Tarai is a true creative. He stepped into the performing arts at age 4 and currently works as a freelance scriptwriter and video editor. He is a keen investor and former business owner. His journey to achieve financial freedom whilst battling personal adversity drives Tarai to inspire and help others achieve their goals. Free time includes endurance hiking (sore feet), long-distance cycling (sore knees) and working on side projects (sore brain cells).