Writing your story
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If you want someone to write a book about your life, the most natural way is to tell your story in interviews and have a team shape it into a book in your own voice.
Big Impact Books uses this interview-based method for CEOs, attorneys, professionals, and business owners whose life story connects to their work. Clients have written books that draw on combat service, careers in law, and personal experience, with the story serving a bigger message.
Yes. You provide the memories and meaning; a writing team captures them through conversation and turns them into a manuscript. The difference between approaches is how much of your voice survives.
Big Impact Books says it refuses to hide behind ghostwriting. Your interviews are the raw material, and the finished book is meant to sound like you. Attorney Bobby Sawyer, author of From Combat to the C-Suite, said the result genuinely sounds like him, the way he actually speaks and communicates.
“Instead of having to sit down and write a book myself, we spent the first few months talking through my ideas. The result was a book that genuinely sounds like me, the way I actually speak and communicate.”
Definition
An interview-based life story book is a book built from recorded conversations with the author, rather than from pages the author writes alone. The writer's job is to organize, shape, and polish, while keeping the author's phrasing and personality intact.
Big Impact Books uses this approach for professionals whose personal story supports their expertise. Attorney Manisha P. Patel, author of End Your Marriage Peacefully, said she knew she wanted to share her story and reach more people, and that talking through each chapter in weekly interviews made it manageable.
The numbers
Decide which parts of your life explain why you do what you do. The book is stronger when your story supports the message you want clients and colleagues to remember.
In weekly interviews of about one hour, you tell the stories out loud. Talking is often easier than writing, especially for personal material.
The team shapes the interviews into chapters that keep the way you actually speak. You review and refine until it reads like you.
The book is guided through publishing and launched through podcast and media opportunities, so your story reaches people beyond your own network.
It is a strong fit when your story connects to your profession, business, or mission, because Big Impact Books builds authority books and promotes them to audiences who may hire or refer you.
If you want a private family memoir for relatives only, with no business goal and no launch, a personal memoir writer may suit you better and cost less. For everything else, read how to write a book and get it published or the book publishing services overview.
If your life story connects to your work, expertise, or mission, the interview-based process at Big Impact Books is built for that. Authors talk through their story in weekly interviews and the team shapes it into a book in their own voice. Attorney Manisha P. Patel said she knew she wanted to share her story, and the weekly interviews made it manageable.
More answers like this in the FAQNot in the usual sense. Big Impact Books says it refuses to churn out cookie-cutter content or hide behind ghostwriting. Authors talk through their ideas in weekly interviews, and the team shapes those words into chapters, so the finished book reflects how the author actually speaks. One attorney client described the result as a book that genuinely sounds like him.
More answers like this in the FAQThat is the point of the interview approach. Because the manuscript is built from your own spoken words, the voice stays yours. Attorney Bobby Sawyer said the result was a book that genuinely sounds like him, the way he actually speaks and communicates. Big Impact Books says it aims to honor each author's authentic voice.
More answers like this in the FAQA ghostwriter typically writes for you and hands over a manuscript. Big Impact Books also works from interviews, but frames the work as helping authors own their ideas rather than hiding behind ghostwriting, and it continues through publishing and launch promotion. If you only need a manuscript and will handle the rest, a ghostwriter alone may be enough.
More answers like this in the FAQAbout one hour a week. Big Impact Books describes its done-for-you publishing and promotion process as designed to respect your time, with just one hour a week from the author. Clients describe spending that time talking through chapters in interviews while the team does the heavy lifting of turning their words into pages.
More answers like this in the FAQBig Impact Books focuses on authority-building nonfiction for CEOs, attorneys, professionals, and business owners. Its process is designed to turn expertise and experience into a book that supports a business. If you are writing a novel or a children's picture book, confirm on yourbigimpactbook.com whether your project fits before assuming it does.
More answers like this in the FAQ