Frequently Asked Questions

Books that capture your voice, your philosophy, your life experiences and your passions. Write Wisdom has worked with CEOs and founders of major corporations, a philanthropist, a married couple wanting to share their life’s journey together, a family wishing to write a tribute about their father and grandfather, a career military man, an inventor, a physician, a professional opera singer, a Holocaust survivor, a Japanese prisoner-of-war, among many.

Our books range in length from 120 pages – 300 pages on average. Our writers schedule face to face interviews with our clients. Interviews are transcribed and then up to two drafts are submitted for client approval before a final manuscript is ready for publication. The process usually takes between nine months to one year.

The content of your book and the views expressed are entirely yours. However, we often conduct background research to provide your reader with facts and lively details to support your story, and make it come alive to your reader. For example if you attended the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, we might fill in details: the cost of a ticket; what some of the pavilions looked like; and what the commercial reasons were to have a World’s Fair. We also provide fact-checking as part of our services.

Photographs as a companion to text are highly recommended. We will work with you to select the best quality photographs; typically, we recommend up to 40 photographs for inclusion.

To the extent that they are in the public domain, or available for a small permission fee, such materials can add variety and texture to your words. A line from a favorite poem might be used at the front of your book to set the tone of your story, or a title of a song might be a perfect chapter heading.

Depending upon the length of the manuscript and the number of interviews conducted, our fee ranges from $50,000 to $150,000.

Our clients are listed as the author unless you choose to have an attribution such as “written with.”

Write Wisdom will advise our clients regarding various publishing options. We can help shepherd you through the process and make sure that everything is handled correctly. In addition we can assist you in selecting a book publicist to help with sales.

As a complement to a book, we recommend a companion DVD of up to 10 minutes in length. The contents of the video will present brief interviews and still photographs. The video will be produced with music, captions, and titles.