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CAP Books, The Complete Author’s Program
 

If you're just getting started, our Complete Author's Program (CAP) is designed for you. With a CAP Book, you provide the stories over the phone and mail in your photos, and we take care of the rest. It’s easy, affordable, and it’s the best way to produce a book.

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What’s your opinion? We ask questions about your writing, about your dreams for your book, and more. We’ll reveal and discuss your survey responses on our blog.

   
 

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How to Write and Publish a Memoir or Family History Book

If only someone had given us an overview of the subject when we started writing books: the craft of telling stories, the ins and outs of getting published, the technology we would need, and more. We try to summarize the "big picture" of what we've learned in these articles. Of course, there are so many aspects of creating a book that it is impossible to cover them all here. But for an author who wants to get quickly oriented, this is a good start.

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At your left you’ll see links to categories about writing. They'll lead you to articles on that topic. The topics are organized roughly in the order you might ask questions, from getting started to printing and publishing. We’ll continue to add articles in each category as we go.

We also discuss these topics on our blog. There, we may post tidbits from relevant current events. We will also recommend good books to read if you’d like to know more about these topics at greater depth.

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To be faithful to ourselves, we must keep our ancestors and posterity within reach and grasp of our thoughts and affections, living in the memory and retrospect of the past, and hoping with affection and care for those who are to come after us. -Daniel Webster
 
 
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