Tell it once. Keep it always.
Everyone has a story worth keeping — but not everyone knows how to write it. My Story Now makes it easy to capture your life and turn it into a polished story your family can treasure for generations.
You talk. We take care of the writing.
Crafted by a published ghostwriter with 15 years of memoir experience.
Join the waitlistCrafted by a published ghostwriter.
Eight distinct writing voices.
Every book funds a child's education.
How it works
Three steps. At your pace.
Jess Whitehill, founder & ghostwriter. Every interview is shaped by her craft.
Step 1
We listen.
Through a guided interview at your own pace — voice or text, paused and resumed as life allows — we help you tell the story that's been waiting to be told.
Step 2
We weave.
Your words, in your chosen voice — from gonzo to gentle, journalistic to literary — shaped into a full-length autobiography. Every fact comes from you. Nothing invented.
Step 3
You hold it.
A beautifully formatted PDF, ready to read or print. Hardcover printing and audiobook narration coming soon.
We don't just capture stories. We shape them.
Who this is for
Stories worth keeping.
Families racing time
For when you've realised the stories are going. Dementia, terminal illness, or simply time — we help you capture what cannot wait.
Legacy builders
For when you want to leave more than your name. Grandparents, parents, retirees — your story belongs to the people you love.
Anyone with a story worth telling
For everyone in between. You don't need to have built an empire. You just need to have lived.
Eight voices, one story
Their life, in the voice that fits.
Each voice is drawn from a real literary tradition. You'll choose yours after you begin — and you can change it later.
The Gonzo
Hunter S. ThompsonWild, first-person, fever-dream prose. For lives that were lived loudly.
"The morning broke like a fist through a stained-glass window…"
What you receive
A glimpse of what we make.
An illustration of the craft. Yours will be uniquely your own.
Chapter the First
On the shortening of stories.
There is a particular kind of silence that opens up about ten years before someone you love dies. You notice it first at Christmas. The same three stories come around — the one about the borrowed bicycle, the one about the wedding in the rain, the one about the dog. They are good stories. They are not new stories. They have, somewhere along the way, replaced the other forty.
The other forty are still there, of course. They are sitting in the same head they have always sat in. But they are getting harder to fetch — the way a book on a high shelf gets harder to fetch — and at some point the person you love stops fetching them at all.
This is the moment most families notice, and most families do nothing about. Not because they don't care. Because the work of doing something is enormous, and grief about a person who is still alive feels indecent, and nobody knows where to begin.
“My father told the same three stories at every Christmas.
I wanted the other forty.”
We made My Story Now for the other forty. For the part of the story that is still in the room, that has not been told yet because no one has sat down and asked properly. We made it inexpensive on purpose — A$499, one price, one book — because cost should not be the reason it does not happen.
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Every book is unique to its author. This is what care looks like, rendered in type.
Books that have been waiting to be written.
Sample concepts. Yours will be uniquely your own.
From the founder
“After fifteen years of ghostwriting life stories, I've learned most people don't struggle with having something to say — they struggle with knowing how to say it. My Story Nowwas built to make that part simple. The technology is ours. The story is yours. We just help you tell it.”
— Jess Whitehill, founder & ghostwriter
Every My Story Now book sends a child to school for ten days through Pro Purpose.
Because legacy isn't only what we leave behind.
Your full autobiography
US$329
at launch
US$219 for the first 50 founding customers
Join the waitlist for priority access.
- Up to 20 hours of interview capacity
- Unlimited adaptive follow-up questions
- Your choice of 8 writing voices
- Full-length autobiography, beautifully formatted
- Five free revisions per chapter
- Delivered as a PDF
- A child's education funded in your name
Prices shown in your local currency for clarity. Final charge processed in AUD via Stripe — your bank handles the conversion at their daily rate.
Questions, answered
Frequently asked.
Will AI make things up?+
Never. Our system is built to weave your actual words into prose, never to invent. If a detail isn't in your interviews, it won't be in your book.
How long does it take?+
Most customers complete their book in 4 to 8 weeks, at their own pace.
Can I pause and come back?+
Yes. Every answer is saved. Return whenever life allows.
What if I'm not happy with a chapter?+
Every chapter includes 5 free revisions. Highlight a passage, tell us what you'd like different, and we rewrite it — keeping the voice you chose.
What about printed books or audiobooks?+
Coming soon. For now, your delivered book is a beautifully formatted PDF.
Who sees my story?+
Only you. Your interviews and manuscript are private and encrypted.
Some stories can't wait.
Pause and resume as often as you need. Your story will be waiting.