What counts as a custom story?

Anything you want the book to be about. People have used it for a single defining year, a house, a recovery, a hobby, a community group and a family business. If you can talk about the subject, Sage can build a book around it.

How is a custom story different from the other types?

The other types come with a suggested chapter structure built around a familiar shape, such as a whole life or a relationship. With a custom story you define the subject and the chapters yourself, and Sage shapes the conversation around what you have chosen.

Is a custom story the same quality and price?

Yes. It is written, illustrated with your photos, printed and bound exactly like every other Chapternity book, and priced on the same depth-based scale.

ChapternityAny story, beautifully told

Custom story

For the story that does not fit a label.

Some stories do not belong to any one category. A custom story bends the format around whatever you want to preserve, whether that is a single year, a place, a passion, or a chapter of life all its own.

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Most stories worth keeping fit reasonably well into a life, a love, a family or a career. Some do not. The year everything changed. A house and everyone who passed through it. A recovery. A campaign. A hobby that turned into a life. A community, a team, a congregation, a shop on a corner that mattered to a whole street.

A custom story lets you decide what the book is about. You choose the subject and the chapters, and Sage builds the conversation around them rather than around a template. Everything else works exactly as it does for any other Chapternity book: a warm conversation instead of writing, a properly written narrative, your photographs throughout, and the whole thing read before you pay for anything.

If you are unsure whether your idea fits, it almost certainly does. The one thing a custom story needs is that you care about the subject enough to enjoy talking about it.

What Sage explores

The things worth remembering.

Through a warm, unhurried conversation, Sage gently draws out the details that make the story yours. You never need to know where to begin.

Whatever subject or period you choose to build the book around

The people involved and the parts they played

The moments that mattered most, in your own words

The turning points, and what changed because of them

What you want remembered, and who you want to read it

A glimpse of the writing

“Elena arrived with one suitcase and a contract she could cancel with thirty days' notice. The apartment was smaller than the photographs and brighter than she expected, with blue tiles in the kitchen and a view of rooftops that changed colour through the day.”

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Who it is for

People who make a custom story

Anyone whose story does not sit neatly inside one of the other types

Someone marking a single significant year, event or period

A group, community or organisation preserving its own history

People who want full control over the chapters rather than a set structure

The finished keepsake

Something to keep forever.

A book shaped entirely around your subject, in the same quality binding as every other Chapternity story.Choose a printed hardcover or softcover, a digital edition, or add an audiobook narrated by a professional AI voice, or in the subject's own voice, recreated with AI voice cloning.

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Custom story questions

What counts as a custom story?: Anything you want the book to be about. People have used it for a single defining year, a house, a recovery, a hobby, a community group and a family business. If you can talk about the subject, Sage can build a book around it.
How is a custom story different from the other types?: The other types come with a suggested chapter structure built around a familiar shape, such as a whole life or a relationship. With a custom story you define the subject and the chapters yourself, and Sage shapes the conversation around what you have chosen.
Is a custom story the same quality and price?: Yes. It is written, illustrated with your photos, printed and bound exactly like every other Chapternity book, and priced on the same depth-based scale.

More questions? See the full FAQ or how it works.