Black & White Publishing
A popular and economical choice for text-focused memoirs, autobiographies, family histories, and personal narratives.
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Memoir Book Publishing
Publish Your Memoir. Share the Story Only You Can Tell.
Turn your memories, experiences, and personal story into a professionally published memoir with expert book design, editing, multiple formats, worldwide distribution, and personalized publishing support while keeping 100% of your rights and royalties.
Professional Memoir Publishing
Give Your Life Story the Professional Presentation It Deserves
Whether you are preserving family history, reflecting on a remarkable experience, or sharing lessons from a life well lived, professional publishing helps your memoir connect with readers in a polished, lasting form.
Professional Book Production
Present your story with professional cover design, interior formatting, editing options, and production support.
Multiple Book Formats
Publish your memoir in paperback and hardback, with eBook and audiobook options available to reach readers in the formats they prefer.
Worldwide Distribution
Make your memoir available through an extensive network of online retailers, wholesalers, and distribution channels.
Your Book, Your Rights
Keep 100% of your rights and royalties while receiving personalized support throughout the publishing process.
Every Life Story Is Different
Professional Publishing for Every Kind of Memoir
Memoirs can preserve family history, explore defining experiences, celebrate extraordinary lives, or share lessons learned along the way. Your story deserves a publishing approach that fits its purpose and audience.
Personal Memoir
Share the experiences, relationships, turning points, and memories that shaped your life.
Family History
Preserve family stories, photographs, traditions, and history for current and future generations.
Inspirational Memoir
Tell a personal story of perseverance, transformation, recovery, faith, or meaningful change.
Historical Memoir
Connect personal experiences with important places, periods, events, or moments in history.
Professional Memoir
Reflect on a career, calling, business, public service, or a lifetime of professional experience.
Travel & Adventure Memoir
Bring readers along through journeys, discoveries, challenges, and unforgettable places.
Military & Service Memoir
Document experiences of military service, public service, sacrifice, leadership, and duty.
Legacy & Life Story
Create a lasting record of the people, values, experiences, and lessons you want to leave behind.
Choose Your Publishing Path
Memoir Book Publishing Options
Choose black & white or full-color publishing based on your manuscript, photographs, keepsakes, illustrations, and other visual content.
Full-Color Publishing
Ideal when photographs, letters, artwork, keepsakes, or other visual elements are an important part of your story and the reader experience.
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Want Publishing and Marketing Bundled Together?
The Non-Fiction One-Click Suite combines professional book publishing with marketing services selected for nonfiction authors in one comprehensive package.
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Formats for Your Book
Publish Your Memoir in the Formats Readers Want
Choose from popular memoir trim sizes and paperback and hardback options, then expand your reach with professionally published eBook and audiobook editions.
Designed Around Your Story
Professional Layout & Design for Memoirs
Memoirs often include photographs, letters, documents, captions, timelines, or other personal materials. Professional layout can weave those elements into your story while keeping the interior polished, readable, and cohesive.
Bring Your Story and Photographs Together Beautifully
If your memoir includes photographs, letters, keepsakes, captions, or other meaningful visual elements, thoughtful interior design can make them feel like an intentional part of the story rather than an afterthought.
Outskirts Press offers multiple levels of professional book layout and design so your memoir can reflect the tone of your story and the way you want readers to experience it.
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Free Memoir Publishing Resource
Get 6 Tips for Memoir Self-Publishing Authors
Get helpful guidance for turning your personal story into a professionally published memoir and making informed decisions throughout the publishing process.
Customize Your Publishing Plan
Professional Services for Your Memoir
Add the professional publishing and marketing services that best support your story, presentation, audience, and publishing goals.
Published with Outskirts Press
Award-Winning Memoirs
Memoir authors published by Outskirts Press have earned awards and recognition for powerful personal stories, family histories, life experiences, and reflections.
From Memoir Authors
Authors Share Their Publishing Experience
Hear from memoir authors about their experience bringing deeply personal stories to publication with Outskirts Press.
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Author of 6 Award-Winning Books Published by Outskirts Press
Twenty-Eight Snow Angels is my second publishing experience with Outskirts Press. Once the book was completed and, in my hands, I fell in love with the custom cover and the photos that were integrated into the text added such a warm and personal touch. The positive reader response to my memoir, Twenty-Eight Snow Angels, makes my heart soar! Many thanks to Outskirts Press.
Diane Dettmann
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Memoir Author Published by Outskirts Press
Outskirts Press has been a great partner in the process of writing and publishing my book Horns and Halos. Jamie and Dana were great to work with. They were professional, supportive, and excellent communicators.
Writing a book and publishing it can be a grind! It is work and takes dedication, persistence, and commitment. I felt the team at Outskirts Press stood with me during the entire experience. If they did not have the answer right away, they made sure they found out and communicated with me promptly.
I tip my hat to Outskirts Press and thank them for a job well done! Jaimie and Dana were the absolute best!
George A. Machado
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Outskirts Press creates beautiful physical books and makes them available everywhere. They also offer a variety of other services, including many around book marketing.
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