Lean to lay out your book using free Bookwright software (on demand)
Replay of an interactive workshop to lay out your book for printing with Blurb
Conquer formatting and finish your book
Deadlines work. That is why we encourage students to set a goal of finishing projects by Christmas. It's a great strategy!
If you want to put it into a book, the formatting part can be daunting. To help our students clear that hurdle, we taught a live, interactive workshop via Zoom now available for you as a replay.
We walk you through how to do your book's layout using Blurb's free Bookwright software.
Blurb is a book printing service offering everything from trade paperbacks to full-color coffee table books. They created an easy-to-use, free software program called BookWright, which is what we use in this course.
Be advised that the catch with using BookWright for free is that you must print your book using Blurb's service. We picked this software, however, because it has the easiest learning curve and because we have been happy with Blurb's printing. Their quality, pricing, and turnaround time are great.
Even if you ultimately choose different software, the tricks you learn will help you with other programs.
Course Pricing $59 for the LIVE course, plus the replay
Lean to lay out your book using
free Bookwright software (on
demand)
Replay of an interactive workshop to lay out your book for printing with Blurb
Rhonda Lauritzen
Rhonda Lauritzen is a professional biographer with multiple published books. She specializes in life stories, collecting oral history, and historical storytelling. She earned an MBA from the University of Utah and was selected as the Outstanding Graduate in her undergrad major. Before she founded Evalogue.Life in 2016, she served as a college marketing director, Vice President, and a corporate CEO. In 2007, her writing journey began with her parents’ family business saga, which became her first book. Since then, she has been hired to help tell the stories of families, cities, and nonprofits. She believes that when you tell your story, it changes the ending. This is why her passion is teaching, coaching, and presenting at conferences.
Rachel Trotter
Rachel J. Trotter is a senior writer/editor at Evalogue.Life – Tell Your Story. She tells people’s stories and shares hers to encourage others. She loves family storytelling. A graduate of Weber State University, she has had articles featured on LDSLiving.com, lds.org, FamilySearch.org and Meridian Magazine. She has been a speaker at RootsTech, Weber State University Family History Conference, Conference on Family History at BYU and the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree. She helps people tell and write their life stories and has written six life stories with several more in production. She has also helped several others write their own stories. She and her husband Mat have six children and she recently became a grandma! She and her family live on the East Bench in Ogden, Utah.
What Students Say About our Courses
“I never realized how important writing is to me...I feel blessed to have found your class! Thank you for giving me the tools, and now the confidence, to take the words from my head and place them on paper. You are a fabulous teacher.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed the 'Life Story' class. The storyboard was marvelous and extremely helpful.”
“I had a terrific time in your class. It has provided a necessary means of accountability. I felt inclined to write some life stories but just wasn't applying the chair glue to do it.”
“Thank you for teaching this class. It is making my life better and giving me the encouragement I need to finish my book.”
"Thank you! Best class I attended at RootsTech."
"What a wonderful course!"
"I really enjoyed your class and feel like I was set to go on a journey. I have to confess that I was not sold on the storyboard idea at the beginning of the class, but as I have studied it and learned a bit more, I can see and recognize it not only in books and movies but in real life. Very interesting!"
"Using what you taught us, I posted photos and short stories about my husband who died thirty years ago. I transferred his voice from cassette to flash drive. I uploaded his voice to FamilySearch. I am amazed at the reticent relatives and friends that appreciate these stories! The process showed me all I've lived through already. I can do this, too. Thank you"
“Rhonda's writing techniques are exquisite...she truly has a gift.”
“I started searching for someone who could teach me to write with passion and something more powerful. Then Google led me to Rhonda's website and she has been that person for me. I did my research, read a lot of helpful information on her website, and I watched the previews.”
"Thank you, you helped me realize I am the hero in my own story."
"I finished your course this morning!!! It was SO WONDERFUL! The course AND the feeling of finishing. My review is a glowing one and well deserved."
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