Personal histories, memoirs, and autobiographies Sarah has edited, designed, and helped bring to print — for individuals and families preserving their stories for generations to come.
Your life story is a gift to the future, and the effort you put into writing your personal history will be appreciated more than you know. To begin, we'll agree to a simple contract. From there, every project moves through four stages.
You draft the text, select photos, and write captions. Microsoft Word or Google Docs work well for this — any paper photos just need to be scanned first.
Sarah performs a content edit (suggestions on how the story is told), then a copyedit (grammar and typos). You review all the edits along the way.
Sarah creates the layout of the text and cover, and you review the design before it moves forward.
Sarah requests a quote from the publisher and submits the files for printing.
Once your story is printed, Sarah can also help you plan additional copies, list it for sale, or share it through free archives like FamilySearch Memories — and can put together an ebook edition for wider distribution.
These projects are shared for illustrative purposes. Most were privately printed for family use; where a title is publicly available, it's linked below.
Provided developmental editing, copyediting, formatting, and self-publishing support for this memoir, published as a physical book through Blurb and as an ebook through Amazon.
View on Amazon →Invited contributing authors, provided writing prompts, wrote articles, copyedited, and formatted this collection of remembrances. Arranged publishing of the 80-page book, 10 copies.
Privately printed · not available onlineCopyedited and formatted remembrances contributed by Karen Christenson's children. Arranged self-publishing of the 70-page book.
Privately printed · not available onlineCollected materials and developed the manuscript, then designed and laid out the 140-page book in Adobe InDesign. Arranged proofs and orders with 8 separate branches of the family.
Privately printed · not available onlineCopyedited the manuscript and designed the 348-page interior and cover in Adobe InDesign. Arranged self-publishing of the first print run of 100 copies.
Privately printed · not available onlineCopyedited the manuscript and designed the 422-page interior and cover in Adobe InDesign. Arranged self-publishing of 100 copies.
Privately printed · not available onlineCopyedited this approximately 46,000-word Operations Management PhD dissertation.
Academic dissertation · not linkedCopyedited and reorganized the manuscript from 334,000 to 303,000 words, dividing it into 25 chapters and 12 appendices with new prefaces. Designed the 354-page book in Adobe InDesign and arranged self-publishing of 50 copies.
Privately printed · not available online