The Year She Left Home
A Life Story that opens in the town she grew up in and follows her through the decisions nobody in the family knows the full version of. Built from what she has told you and what her sisters remember differently.
Answer ten questions about your grandmother, choose a genre, and get a real 220+ page novel with her as the main character.
































Grandma has a set of stories the family can recite from memory, and not one of them is written down anywhere. This turns them into a book: a real 220+ page novel, about 18 to 20 chapters, with your grandmother as the main character. You answer up to ten questions about her, the town she is from, the work she did before anyone called her grandma, the line she says every time you leave the house, and our AI writes the novel around those answers. You choose the title, and your name goes on the cover as the author.
This is a novel for an adult reader, with chapters and a spine, not a photo album. Pick the genre that suits her: Life Story if you want the shape of her actual life, comedy if she is funnier than she admits, romance if the family still argues about how she met your grandfather, historical if her childhood was a different world. There are 14 genres and one main character, and the people you name become characters around her.
Nana, Grammy, Mimi: whatever your family calls her, the title and the dedication are in your own words, so the book says her name the way you say it. You read the whole story and see the cover options before you pay anything. Printed books take about three business days to print and then ship free with standard delivery in the US, an estimated 11 to 14 business days, with priority and express at checkout. The digital edition arrives within 24 hours, and extra copies of the same book cost less when you add them to the same order, which matters when the whole family wants one.
A Life Story that opens in the town she grew up in and follows her through the decisions nobody in the family knows the full version of. Built from what she has told you and what her sisters remember differently.
A comedy about a woman who runs an entire family by telephone and considers this a modest hobby. Her rules, her opinions on everyone's cooking, and the one time she was wrong.
A romance set in the year she met your grandfather, told the way she tells it, which is not the way he tells it. It ends where the family history everyone knows begins.
Watch happy authors open the personalized book they created.

A whole novel where I'm the main character. Still can't believe it's real 🥹

His reaction reading the novel I made about him 😂 Best gift I've ever given.

Someone turned our story into a real printed novel. Couldn't stop smiling 🧡

"Sean Howard's Five-Year Plan for Loving His Wife" — a real printed novel starring my husband 📖❤️

Made my best friend the hero of his own sales thriller 😂 He completely lost it.

The moment he realized the whole book is about HIM 📖

Wrote him into his own novel. He went quiet, then read it all night 🥹
Three steps. Five minutes. A book they'll keep forever.
Share a few details — personality, hobbies, and what makes them unique.
Read through every chapter, choose a cover, and tweak anything you want.
A professionally printed book delivered to your door, on us.
Share a few details — personality, hobbies, and what makes them unique.
Read through every chapter, choose a cover, and tweak anything you want.
A professionally printed book delivered to your door, on us.
Real words from our customers, shared with their permission
When it came to writing and putting my vision onto paper, I faced significant challenges. BeTheAuthor gave me a way to bring my ideas to life... It helped shape and refine what I was trying to express without losing the heart of my story. This isn't just a platform to me, this is the doorway to success.
Jenny D. - Homeschooling mom of eight
Verified customerJune 21, 2026
I absolutely love the book. Thank y'all so much, you did a fantastic job putting my words together. The way you put the entire storyline together absolutely captured my son and his dogs, exactly what they are. My family that has read these two books wants to keep them.
Brenda C.
Verified customerJuly 18, 2026
The book is so beautiful it made me cry. All of us love the cover photo of our Mother. My brother and his wife are enjoying it, my sister is still reading, we all love it. You did an awesome job, I can't thank you enough. Highly recommend.
Marilyn N.
Verified customerJuly 17, 2026
When it came to writing and putting my vision onto paper, I faced significant challenges. BeTheAuthor gave me a way to bring my ideas to life... It helped shape and refine what I was trying to express without losing the heart of my story. This isn't just a platform to me, this is the doorway to success.
Jenny D. - Homeschooling mom of eight
Verified customerJune 21, 2026
I absolutely love the book. Thank y'all so much, you did a fantastic job putting my words together. The way you put the entire storyline together absolutely captured my son and his dogs, exactly what they are. My family that has read these two books wants to keep them.
Brenda C.
Verified customerJuly 18, 2026
The book is so beautiful it made me cry. All of us love the cover photo of our Mother. My brother and his wife are enjoying it, my sister is still reading, we all love it. You did an awesome job, I can't thank you enough. Highly recommend.
Marilyn N.
Verified customerJuly 17, 2026
Every book is 220+ pages, professionally typeset, and made to last.
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Yes. Additional copies of the same book cost less when you add them to the same order, and you can reorder later from your order page. Both printed editions include the digital copy, so the family can start reading before the boxes arrive. Printed books ship within the US; the digital edition works anywhere.
It is a novel built from your answers. The names, places and turning points you give us are used, and the scenes are written around them, so it reads like a book rather than a record. Every copy carries a short note that the story is a work of fiction. If you want a factual account of her life, this is not that.
Collect the stories first, then answer the questions once. There are up to ten of them and it takes about five minutes, so the slow part is agreeing on whose version of the story is correct. The dedication page is in your own words, and that is where everyone signs.
You fix it in the preview. Once the book is written we email you, and you read the story and see the cover options before you pay, with the chance to change your answers, the title and the cover. Check the names and spellings carefully then: after you pay, the book is printed exactly as you approved it.
Yes, if you choose a Photo Template cover, which places your actual photo inside a designed template. The other two paths are AI-designed covers illustrated from a photo you upload, or designed from the story itself. Illustrated covers are an interpretation rather than a portrait, and you see four of them per round before you choose.
The Digital Edition is $29, the Paperback is $39 and the Hardcover is $59. Both printed editions include the digital copy, and standard shipping within the US is free.