Fondly Interviewed
The guided memoir. A professional biographer draws the story out of you — then we make the film and the book.
What's included
A film your family will watch, and a properly made hardback with your name on the spine.
Your voice, your photographs, your stories — cut into a keepsake film that gets shown at birthdays and sent round the family.
A properly made hardback — not a scrapbook, not a print-out. The kind of book you'd be happy to see on a shelf, and happy to hand over.
The questions do the work. You answer them the way you'd tell it at the table — and that becomes the book.
No blank page, no writing, nothing technical to learn. You'll be asked good questions and the answers become the book.
Good questions, asked properly — by a professional interviewer if you choose Interviewed, or guided prompts if you'd rather go at your own pace. Nobody hands you a blank page.
Week 1
The way you'd tell it at the table. Photographs come out, the stories arrive in the wrong order, and that's fine — we'll straighten it out.
At your pace
Written, designed, printed, bound. You read it before anything is final — then the copies arrive, and you hand them out.
Within weeks
Buying it for a parent or grandparent? They get an invitation, not a deadline — and the same interviewer, the same book at the end.
On the day
The questions do the work. All they have to do is answer them the way they'd tell it at the table.
At their own pace
A film for the family, and a hardback with their name on the spine. Copies for everyone who should have one.
Within weeksFondly families, in their own words.
"For fifteen years they'd told me to write it down and I never did — wouldn't have known where to start. I just talked, and someone else did the writing. Gave a copy to each of them at my wife's birthday lunch. My granddaughter read the chapter about the business and laughed her head off."
"I'm not a writer and I was never going to be. Turns out you don't need to be — you just need someone who asks the right questions."
"Thought it'd feel self-indulgent. It didn't — it felt like leaving something behind that's actually worth having."
"It's a proper book. Hardback, my name on the spine. Not a scrapbook — a book."
"A friend's funeral was what did it. His son got the best stories wrong and nobody could correct him. I ordered mine the following week."
"Easiest thing I've ever done. I just talked."
"Dad didn't think he had stories worth telling. Forty pages later, he can't stop."
"The film made my mum cry. The good kind."
"It's on the shelf next to the real books. It belongs there."
Fondly is made by StoryTerrace — the studio that has spent over a decade crafting life-story books for families around the world. Same craft, same care. Now at a price for everyone.
Full refund within 30 days. No forms, no fuss.
Talk or type on any device. No app to learn, no password to lose.
Download everything — the film, the stories, the photographs — whenever you like, forever.
I started StoryTerrace in 2014 because my father nearly didn't get to tell his story — and I realised almost nobody does. Twelve years and more than ten thousand life stories later, we've learned exactly what it takes to get a life onto the page: good questions, patient listening, and craft. Fondly is all of that, made simple enough for everyone. The stories were always yours. Now the telling is too.
Not a book. Not a project. One conversation, and the rest follows from there.
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