Frequently Asked Questions

Your Life Interview is the front door to two services from Archieboy Holdings: MemoirMaker, which turns a spoken conversation into a finished memoir, and MemoirMovies, which turns a finished memoir into a hand-drawn animated film in your own words. Nothing is sold on this site; each service has its own website, prices and support.

If your story is not written down yet, start with MemoirMaker. If you already have a memoir or a manuscript, start with MemoirMovies. Many people do both: MemoirMaker for the book, then MemoirMovies for the film.

No. At MemoirMaker you can simply talk. Marin, the AI interviewer, plans the book with you in a short first sitting, then asks one question at a time, chapter by chapter. Each chapter comes back written in your own voice and shown beside your own words, so you can check every paragraph.

MemoirMovies keeps your words. The narration is your own sentences, copied word for word, and quoted dialogue is used exactly as written; only the scene directions are new. You approve the screenplay, and the film is made one part at a time, each for you to watch and approve before the next one begins.

Yes. MemoirMovies shows a finished example: the founder's own memoir, released whole as a web series on YouTube. You can also upload your book for free and ask for a free one-minute sample, a scene from your first chapter made in your words, drawn, voiced and scored.

Choose Make it a film beside your memoir in MemoirMaker. It is sent privately to MemoirMovies and arrives signed in, ready for the screenplay, with no upload and no new password. Nothing is charged until you start the film. A film needs a story of at least 1,500 words.

Each service shows its prices on its own site before you pay. MemoirMaker is free to start, with your first interview sitting and a sample chapter, and no card required (MemoirMaker prices). At MemoirMovies, uploading your book is free and you see your price at once; you pay once, set by the length of the book, when you start the film (MemoirMovies prices).

Yes. Buy a memoir under an account you control at MemoirMaker, then help your loved one begin or share the account with them. They can talk instead of typing. See giving a memoir as a gift.

Your Life Interview began as an invitation-only spoken life interview. That interviewer, Marin, now works inside MemoirMaker, where it helps you tell your story chapter by chapter and turns it into a book. There is no waiting list here any more; you can start at MemoirMaker today.

Write to hello@memoirmaker.ai about a memoir, or hello@memoirmovies.com about a film. You can also write to hello@yourlifeinterview.com, and we will point you to the right place.