This Christmas, give her the one gift only she can give back: her story.
A beautiful hardcover book of your parent's life — in their words, in their voice. They just talk; we write, design, and print it. Start by November 5 for Christmas delivery.
No subscription. No writing homework for them. Checkout takes two minutes.
How It Works
No writing. No typing. No app to learn. If they can open a text message, they can do this.
Step 1
We send your parent one simple link — by text or email. It asks 12 meaningful questions about their life, one at a time. They tap record and answer out loud, the way they've told these stories at kitchen tables for years.
Step 2
Their words become written chapters, their photos go into a photo section, and we design and print a real hardcover keepsake. A digital proof comes to you first — one full round of edits is included.
Step 3
A QR code at the start of every chapter plays the storyteller's own real recorded voice telling that chapter. Point a phone camera at the page — and there they are.
The Book Itself
This isn't an audio gadget or an app. It's a proper hardcover book first — every story written out in full, to read cover to cover. The voice is woven into it.
Why Kept Stories
Most memoir gifts hand your parent a year of homework. We hand them a conversation.
| The writing-prompt way | Kept Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work? | Your parent writes — weekly email prompts, typed answers | Your parent talks. We do everything else |
| How long? | Up to a year of prompts | About two weeks once they've recorded |
| What you get | Their typed words | A hardcover book plus their actual voice at every chapter |
| If they're "not a writer"? | It stalls — most books never finish | It can't stall. Talking is the whole job |
Pricing
One-time payment. No subscription, no surprises. Every book includes the QR voice chapters, free.
The complete book
$249one-time
The book, in their voice
$349one-time
For siblings & grandkids
$39per copy
Founding families: Payment reserves your place — we contact you after checkout to schedule interviews.
Secure checkout by Stripe. Questions first? Email us at hello@getkeptstories.com
Questions
Something else on your mind? A human answers at hello@getkeptstories.com.
Essential is $249 — the hardcover book with the QR voice chapters included free. Signature is $349 and adds the full audiobook read in their own cloned voice (created only with their recorded consent, used only for their book). Extra printed copies are $39 each. No subscription, no surprises.
About two weeks from when they finish recording. They can record all 12 questions in a couple of sittings or spread them over days — the link saves their progress. For Christmas delivery, start by November 5, 2026.
That's exactly who it's built for. There's nothing to write or type. She opens a link, sees one question, taps a big record button, and talks — the way she's told these stories at kitchen tables for years. If she can open a text message, she can do this.
Both are fine. Any question can be skipped and returned to later, and any answer can be re-recorded as many times as they like. Nothing is final until they say so.
Yes — photos upload through the same link (snap old prints with a phone camera; that quality is plenty). Their photos appear in a dedicated photo section of the book.
At the start of every chapter there's a printed QR code. Anyone reading the book points a phone camera at it and hears the storyteller's own recorded voice telling that chapter. No app, no account, no cost — it's included in every book.
Add extra copies for $39 each — at checkout or later, even after the first book ships. The capture and writing happen once; reprints are the easy part.
Tell us. Whatever they've recorded is theirs and yours — we'll work with your family on the right way to finish or preserve it, and our support is a human conversation, not a ticket queue. (And it's one more gentle reason not to wait.)
Someday you'll wish you could hear her tell it one more time. Save the stories — and the voice — while you still can. Start by November 5 for Christmas delivery.
Questions? Email us at hello@getkeptstories.com