AI Photo Restoration for Your Book: Fix the Photo, Keep the Original
Restoring old photos for a memoir or family history book is fine, and AI makes it cheap. Clean up freely, check every face, label what you changed, and keep every original scan.
Tag: Family
Family shows up in writing whether you invite it or not: in memoirs, in the stories we tell at dinner, and in the reasons people finally sit down to write a book at all. These articles cover writing about family, preserving family stories, and the complicated business of putting relatives on the page.
AIGrandma Isn’t AI Slop: The Pile-On Over Restored Family Photos
People who restore or colorize old family photos with AI keep getting called slop merchants. Hollywood fought the same war over colorized movies. The fix is a label and the original, never a pile-on.
FamilyThe Fear of Being Judged for Your Memoir: My Father Told Everyone to Burn Mine
Almost every memoir writer is afraid of being judged. I mailed a 2,000-page autobiography to twelve relatives and my father told them all to burn it. Here's what I learned about writing the truth anyway.
FamilyMy Family Doesn’t Want Me to Publish My Ghostwritten Memoir. Now What?
If you're an adult, publishing your ghostwritten memoir is your decision. The question is how much of a family blow-up you can take, and how a ghostwriter can reduce the legal and personal damage.
FamilyGhostwriting a Tribute Book, Eulogy or Obituary for Someone You Lost
A ghostwriter can turn the stories of everyone who knew a person into a tribute book. Richard Lowe explains how a tribute book differs from a eulogy or obituary, what the family needs to gather, and why the flaws belong…
FamilyHiring a Ghostwriter for an Immigrant’s Story
An immigrant's crossing belongs on paper before the last person who remembers it is gone. A ghostwriter can work through a translator and the family's records to write it, whether the story is yours or your grandmother's.
FamilyCan a Ghostwriter Help Me Write About Losing Someone to Suicide?
If you want to write about losing someone to suicide, a ghostwriter can help you do it with care. Build the book around the person and the life you've lived since, keep the method off the page, and take the…
FamilyCan a Ghostwriter Help Me Write a Depression or Mental Illness Memoir?
Writing a memoir about depression or mental illness can do you real good, and a ghostwriter takes the blank page off your hands. Pace the interviews to your health, keep your therapist in the loop, and decide early how much…
FamilyHiring a Ghostwriter for a Special-Needs Parent’s Memoir
Parents of children with special needs carry knowledge the next family desperately needs. A ghostwriter can turn it into a memoir that protects your child's privacy, respects an adult child's consent, and fits around the realities of caregiving.
FamilyCan a Ghostwriter Help Me Write an Infertility or Adoption Memoir?
Infertility and adoption stories rarely get told at the dinner table, and a memoir is where they belong. A ghostwriter can help you write one while protecting your partner, the birth parents and the child at the center of it.
FamilyCan a Ghostwriter Help Me Write a Memoir About Family Estrangement?
Richard Lowe spent nineteen years in the house he calls Crazytown and wrote the book about it. Here he explains how a ghostwriter helps you write an estrangement memoir that tells the truth, skips the forced forgiveness, and stays out…
FamilyHiring a Ghostwriter to Write Your Parent’s Life Story While They Can Still Tell It
You can hire a ghostwriter to write your mother's or father's life story in their own voice. Start while they can still sit for the interviews. How it works, what moves the price, and how siblings can share it.