Voice to Book: you talk, and the book exists.
Six stages, a single source —your recorded voice— and eight rules you can check.
The six stages
- 1 · Assessment. Forty-five minutes with an editor and a written answer in 48 hours: yes, no, or yes with conditions. Done by the editor. You approve the route.
- 2 · Voice. Ten one-hour interviews, recorded and transcribed. The editor knows what to ask and what to leave out. Done by the editor, with you. You receive the transcripts: they’re yours.
- 3 · Architecture. The book’s thesis, the reader it speaks to, a chapter-by-chapter outline, what stays out. Proposed by the editor, with technology. You approve it before a line is written.
- 4 · Manuscript. The editor writes each chapter on your transcripts. Artificial intelligence organizes and proposes; it doesn’t invent. You review every chapter, in two rounds.
- 5 · Publication. Final proofing, original cover, layout, ISBN, metadata, Amazon and the Ingram network in accounts in your name, a proof copy. Done by production. You approve the cover and the printed proof.
- 6 · Work. Speaker kit, stages and media, send-out sequence, strategy session and a call at six months. Done by the editor and the founder. You carry it out, with the plan in hand.
How long it takes, if everything runs on time.
If you record your ten interviews in November, approve the architecture in the first week of December and review each chapter within the agreed time, your book can be published on Amazon in February. The exact date goes in your proposal, and it depends on your timing as much as ours.
The eight rules
- Your voice is the source. Nothing goes into the manuscript that you didn’t say in an interview or approve in writing.
- Technology doesn’t invent. It transcribes, organizes, proposes and helps edit your words. You review every chapter. Every book carries a process record.
- A named editor. Signs the copyright page, and you meet them before you start.
- We measure at six months. Which invitations, which clients, what changed in your fees. Recorded privately. Never published without your express permission.
- Published prices. Three figures, before the first call.
- Your rights. One hundred percent yours. Accounts in your name. Royalties paid to you directly. No exclusivity, no lock-in.
- No print run. Print on demand; copies at cost when you order them. No book in a box.
- What we don’t do. Rankings, guaranteed sales, books without you, academic, institutional, fiction, websites, marketing.
Assisted, not generated
Amazon requires disclosure of AI-generated content —text created by a tool, even if edited afterwards— and exempts AI-assisted content, where a person creates the text and uses tools to refine it. IngramSpark, the network that takes your book to bookstores, doesn’t accept content created by automated means and removes it if detected. That’s why the method starts with your recorded voice, not a blank screen, and why every book has a process record: what you recorded, what the tool organized, what the person wrote and reviewed.
What you put in
Ten hours of interviews. Two review rounds, chapter by chapter. Your approval of the architecture, the cover and the printed proof. And the decisions only you can make: what to tell, what to leave out, what your name is on the cover.