Nobody writes a book from a blank page. They write it from talking. You talk for twenty minutes. Oshin asks everyone else who was there, writes it, and a printed book arrives.
She measured nothing. Flour went in by the handful.
She measured nothing the way her mother had.
Oshin never fills a gap with something that merely sounds right. When two people remember the same night differently, both versions go in, and the book says who remembered what. Where nobody remembers, it says that too.
Every sentence in the book traces back to something someone actually said.
One interview with my mother became this book. Oshin is the machinery between the talking and the book.
The method above does not change. What changes is who gets asked, and what the book is for.
A $100 deposit begins it, credited against the total. If you change your mind in the first week we refund it in full, no questions asked.
One price for the whole thing, paid once. Not a subscription, not a charge for each person who contributes, and not a cheaper tier that turns out not to include the printing.
A professional editor reads the whole manuscript and works with you until it is good rather than merely finished.
A professional writer writes the book, with Oshin doing the interviewing and indexing underneath. You are left alone until it arrives.
For comparison: commissioning a ghostwriter directly usually starts around $25,000, and the subscription services that email a weekly question end in a paperback of unedited answers for about $99 a year.
That is enough for a first chapter. Read it before you decide anything else — you will know far more about whether there is a book here than you do now.
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