Legacy Prose™
Memoirs in Print & Video

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Each of our books is unique in both story presentation and book design.

TWO LIVES, ONE LOVE

—a joint memoir by a long-married couple, commissioned by their children and presented to friends and family at an informal book signing party

Notes: For the most part, the couple was interviewed jointly, and the text reflects the light-hearted banter that typifies their relationship. According to a relative: "I read the book and hear them talking."

After a short article appeared in a local newspaper, the library requested several copies of the book because, said the director, "It's more than the story of two people; it's the story of our whole community."

Legacy Prose™ conducted the interviews, wrote the text and managed all aspects of the project.

Specifications

• Size: 8½ x 11
• Pages: 208
• Printing: black and white on 70 lb. Cougar Opaque acid-free, natural
• Binding: hardcover: hand sewn; bonded leather with inset label and gold foil lettering | softcover: perfect-bound with four-color cover
• Quantity: one hardcover; fifty softcover

ONE HUNDRED TEN PERCENT

—an individual memoir by a seventy-five year old woman, commissioned by her daughter. Due to financial constraints, the initial project was to be a simple spiral bound manuscript. The client was so delighted with the result, she asked that we continue the process and provide professionally bound books.

Notes: After an initial introductory meeting when client, who lives in Kansas City, was visiting Colorado, interviews took place over the telephone.

Legacy Prose™ conducted the interviews, wrote the text and managed all aspects of the project.

Specifications

• Size: 6½ x 9½ (softcover); 7 x 10 (hardcover)
• Pages: 194
• Printing: black and white on 70 lb. Microprint archival, white
• Binding: hardcover: hand sewn; bonded leather with contrasting spine, matching stippled page edges, end pages of Bengalese marbled paper, gold foil lettering, ribbon book mark | softcover: perfect-bound with four-color cover
• Quantity: one hardcover, fifteen softcover

GOING ALL THE TIME

—an individual memoir commissioned by the client, an eighty year old woman. "I don't know anything about my father's family and not much about my mother's. I want my granddaughter to know about her family," she said.

Notes: Interviews took place at the client's home. The project also included considerable genealogical research. Much of this research was included in story form in the book; all of it was organized in chart form and placed in a companion folder.

Legacy Prose™ conducted the interviews, wrote the text and managed all aspects of the project.

Specifications

• Size: 8½ x 9½
• Pages: 214
• Printing: black and white on 80 lb. Cougar Opaque acid-free, white
• Binding: hardcover: hand sewn; bonded leather with integrated two layer frame designed to stand alone as a portrait, end pages of handcrafted marbled paper by Mimi Schleicher, gold foil lettering on spine, ribbon book mark | softcover: perfect-bound with four-color montage cover
• Quantity: two leather, five softcover

COCKEYED BLUE-SKY AMBITIONS:
THE J. ED SIMMS STORY

—a biography of the client's uncle, a talented folk artist, who died in 1946 at age twenty-eight of complications from muscular dystrophy

Notes: The client, Rosemary Arp, did prodigious research for this project, tracking down and interviewing folks who had known her uncle when he was a child.

The response to Arp's book has been overwhelming. It has sold more than two hundred copies, mostly to people who either knew Simms personally or who enjoyed the book because it depicts rural Iowa during the mid-twentieth century.

As a result of the book, which received extensive local newspaper and radio coverage, the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, Iowa hosted a six-week exhibition of twenty-three of Simms' paintings.

Legacy Prose™ participated in the project as consultants during the planning, research and writing phases of the project. Production was handled by the client.

Specifications

• Size: 6 x 9
• Pages: 132
• Printing: full color on white Topkote, 100 pound dull text
• Binding: perfect-bound with four-color cover featuring subject's art
• Quantity: 225 (three press runs)

SO FAR FROM HOME

—a biography of the client's mother, who died in 1987 at age sixty-nine

Notes: The client knew very little about his mother because "she lost her family during the Holocaust. It made her sad to talk about them, so I never asked." But his wife had taped a short interview in the 1970s and this, coupled with the client's memories, formed the basis for a short book. "At least my children will know something," he said. "Otherwise, when I go, there will be nothing left of my mother, their grandmother."

Legacy Prose™ reviewed the tape, interviewed the client about his memories of his mother and managed all aspects of the project.

Specifications

• Size: 5½ x 6½
• Pages: 96
• Printing: black and white on 70 lb. Cougar Opaque acid-free, natural
• Binding: perfect-bound with four-color cover
• Quantity: ten

BOBBY & ME

—a memoir centering on client's childhood and his relationship with his older brother

Notes: The client, age eighty-eight, had filled thirty-seven notebooks with hand-written notes and stories that spanned sixty years.

Legacy Prose™ worked closely with the client, editing his notes into a series of vignettes loosely organized by theme. These were integrated with a host of other material, including photos of family memorabilia and scanned copies of letters and documents.

Specifications

• Size: 5½ x 9
• Pages: 156
• Printing: black and white on 70 lb. Cougar Opaque acid-free, natural
• Binding: perfect-bound with four-color cover
• Quantity: thirty-five

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