A how-to book that will walk you through choosing equipment, adjusting room sound, editing your recordings, and conducting interviews. It will also help you write scripts, specifically for audio, and get comfortable with the sound of your voice (and explain why you don't like it).

An essential book for anyone who wants to create stories to share with family, friends, or online. But wait, there's more!

Beyond recording personal stories, this knowledge can help you start a podcast or YouTube channel, post audio recordings of your blog posts, record voice-overs to help market your business, or make demos of your original songs.

Reasons to record your stories:

Stories connect families. A ground-breaking study done at Emory University showed that the single best predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness is their knowledge about family history.

Stories are fun. Children don’t often think of their parents as having had an interesting life before they became parents. And grandchildren are surprised to hear that old people weren’t always old people doing old-people things.

True stories help us understand more about why we are the way we are and, perhaps, why certain decisions were made, or shouldn’t have been made. Also (if this applies to your situation), hearing stories of trauma might encourage someone in a similar situation to get help.