Welcome to the site. Here you can learn something about Wordportraits and find out why you might want one - if you are like many other people I’ve talked to over the past ten years, that is. You can get in touch with me any time, including evenings, weekends and holidays, to arrange a personal chat to learn more. You'll find my contact details here.  

It’s the definitive account of your life to date told in up to 40,000 of your own words, turned into a manuscript or individually designed book that will make a compelling read for you, your friends and your family, now and for ever.

Because you want people who come after you to understand the kind of person you really are. You don’t like the idea of them knowing only half the story when they think of the impact you had on their lives.

Because you see it as a chance to set the record straight ….. for children who may not know much about your early life, or grandchildren you’ve moved away from, or a favourite neice or nephew, for example.

Because you think it’s important for people to know something about their roots. “If they don’t know where they’ve come from, how can they know where they’re going?”  You understand what that means. If you were confident there was a way of speaking directly to future generations of your family about one part of where they came from – the part touched by your life - you would take it.

Your Wordportrait is about half the length of a full-length novel. The writing of it is based on twelve hours of recorded interviews, plus some other research. It can be updated at any time.

Throughout the process of writing, you retain control of what goes in it. In other words, your Wordportrait is a self-portrait. It speaks in a “voice” that your family and friends will instantly recognise as yours.

You can have it delivered as a single copy of a simple manuscript, or as a paperback or hardback book, in any one of a number of designs, with or without photographs. And if you want more copies - no problem. You can have them within days.

Your Wordportrait is the story of your life turned into a book you'll be proud of. You can read more about what you have to do to get one by clicking on the buttons at the side of this page. Have fun - and enjoy the site!

Tony Tysoe
Santa Cristina d’Aro
May 1 2011