Voice to Book
What if you could just… speak your book into existence?
You know you have a book inside you.
You also know you'd rather talk about it than write it.
Maybe you're someone who can spend hours talking to your friends, but freeze up when you have to write an email.
Maybe you prefer voice memos to text.
Maybe you’re a great storyteller… or perhaps you teach, speak, have a podcast, or have simply been told that you should write a book.
You have ideas, expertise, and lived experience—but sitting down to actually write a book, and finish it, feels like an impossible task.
Perhaps you don't consider yourself a writer.
And maybe you don’t have to.
Voice-to-Book, our signature scribing process, was designed for people exactly like you.
Before there were authors, there were storytellers. Before there were books, there were scribes.
What if you could capture the entire content of your book in as little as ten hours of conversation?
Instead of staring at a blank page, you'll hop on a call with us (or join us by the pool) and do what you do best – talk!
We'll do all the important thinking. Prepared with thoughtful and highly specific interview questions based on a well-developed book outline, we’ll pull out your stories, uncover insights, challenge assumptions, and help organize everything you say into a compelling manuscript.
Most of our authors describe the experience as feeling less like work and more like having a deep conversation with a trusted friend.
(And let's be honest—we all enjoy talking about the things we care about.)
After each session, we edit our recorded conversations into beautifully written chapters that capture your voice, personality, stories, and wisdom.
You have the option to do this editing work yourself, or to have us take care of it for you.
Chapter by chapter, you’ll watch your book take shape in real time.
Voice-to-Book is a process that goes like this
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Book Development
We sit together and strategize to come up with a solid game plan, working title, outline, and chapter summaries for your book. This will help us build our interview questions and capture all your content points thoroughly and accurately.
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Scheduling
We’ll set up a recording session schedule that works perfectly with your lifestyle. No more being haunted by hours at your desk, or feeling like you just can’t squeeze a writing session in – just jump on a call with us once a week and get it done in half the time.
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Content Recording Sessions
Our outline is done, our sessions are scheduled, now all you have to do is show up!
We’ll guide you through each session so you only have to focus on being present, comfortable, and ready to speak.
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Consolidation + Editing
We’ll send you all the recordings from your sessions.
You can choose to edit them on your own, or have us turn them into a first draft on your behalf.
We turn around each chapter right after it’s recorded, so week by week your book starts to appear in your inbox.
You have options.
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Voice-to-Book (You Edit)
Choose this option if you want us to record your content, capture your voice, and provide the transcriptions for you to work with on your own.
Includes:4 × 60 min development calls
10 hours of recorded audio
10 original transcriptions
$7k USD, additional recording hours billed separately
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Voice-to-Book (Trickster Edit)
Choose this option cause the Trickster’s often quicker! If you want us to record your content, transcribe your voice, and turn your transcriptions into an edited first draft of each chapter, look no further.
Includes:4 × 60 min development calls
10 hours of recorded content
10 original transcriptions
Up to 10 edited chapters
$17k, additional recording hours/chapters billed separately
Voice-To-Book FAQ.
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Many aspiring authors assume writing a book takes years.
With this process, most manuscripts of approximately 50k words can be completed in as little as three months.
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Ghostwriting is the practice of a person being hired to write literary, journalistic, musical, or other texts that are officially credited to another individual as the author. The ghostwriter typically remains anonymous, though they may receive payment via flat fees, royalties, or credit as a "researcher" or "co-author" depending on the contract.
Voice-To-Book is a recording and transcribing process we’ve developed to help people write books using their voice instead of their hands.
Unlike ghostwriters, we don’t write “for you,” we interview you in an extremely strategic way to elicit your ideas directly, and organize them into a coherent draft of your manuscript.
This service is designed to help people who feel more comfortable speaking than typing write their books faster and without fear.
Unlike some ghostwriters or co-authors, we do not require an acknowledgment or credit for this service in your published book. -
We record sessions online via Zoom (or in person at a destination retreat).
We provide you with the audio of each session as well as the raw transcription.
You can record sessions from your office, your couch, your favorite hiking trail, your parked car between appointments, or curled up in bed with your cat in your lap.
As long as you can speak clearly and have a reliable internet connection, you're ready to write your book.
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If you want do this process live in person, contact us about a Write Away retreat.
We often combine Voice-to-Book and Write Away into one radical and exciting embodied immersion, which leaves you with a finished first draft in as little as two weeks, at a destination of your choice.
