We help you to tell your story
By: My Special Book
Tags: Corporate Books, Collection Books, Biography, Surprise Books, Private Books

This is a question that we encounter regularly in our somewhat unique line of work, the production of tailor-made books.

To answer this question we need to start at the very beginning…

Architects of Stories

First and foremost we are architects, but 16 years ago we left that career behind to produce tailor-made books. However, we have always carried our meticulous attention to detail and love of design with us. Now we work to build your book with the creativity and precision of an architectural project.

Whether it be yours, that of your group of friends, your family or company, let us be the architects of your story.

​​​​​​​Let us tell you some of ours

When the phone rings at My Special Book, we cannot imagine what our next book will be about, nor where this new project will take us. We would like to share a few anecdotes with you about the adventures that our books have taken us on:

Our Arabian Experience

We could not believe it when a Sheik hired us to write his father’s biography (life story) in Saudi Arabia. His 93 years old father had transformed the company from a shall family business of freight transportation on very basic wooden boats into the main ferry fleet for transporting pilgrims through the Red Sea to Mecca.

To be able to write this story, we travelled to Jeddah during Ramadan and we interviewed close to 40 people both in English and Arabic (using an intermediary translator.)

The result? A fantastic book with an authentic Arabic aesthetic and a story that gets you hooked from the very first sentence.

Vicky Randle-Zemborain interviewing clients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Out of Africa

A man hired us to make two books about the chronicles of two scenic safari trips that he took with his family in Botswana and later on in Kenya and Tanzania.

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During many hours of interviews, he told us about the experiences and anecdotes of those trips. He also gave us various pen-drives with close to 8,000 photos of which we had to select and process the best 400 for each project. As well as enjoying the production of the books, we learned a lot about African culture, animals, and places.

The stories are told in both Spanish and English in both books of 350 pages, which weigh 5 kilos each! ​​​​​​​

Antennas en Chicago

Andrew Corporation, an important American company that produced satellite antennas, was sold a few years ago to Comcast, who got rid of the previous name and famous logo. The grandson of the founder did not want the story of the family business to be lost and wanted to preserve it in a book.

We travelled to Chicago to interview him and to compile all the material to write the story. Once finished, he confessed to us that the book completely exceeded his expectations.

Collection Books and Collectors

In all these years we have made various books for collectors of different objects: walking sticks, gold roman coins, works of art and, one day, we were hired to make a collection book of cars with more than 100 models, from vintage cars to one Ferrari Formula 1!

The book tells the story of how the passion for vintage cars started and how this transformed into such a huge collection that the collector has a few vehicles so unique that the companies who produced them, do not even have them in their own museum!

A Legacy for the Children

A British RAF pilot during the second world war decided to write between each flight in a diary about his memories, family stories and advice for his children. One day, he did not return from a mission in France, leaving his work unfinished…

Only a photocopy of his manuscript was left. so, one day, the wife of one of the grandsons decided to surprise him and hired MSB Storytelling to edit the diary of his grandfather together with photos from the family album. A beautiful memory for the family.

Surprise!

Almost every month we deliver one or various surprise gift books for birthdays, executives retiring from their companies, wedding anniversaries, and many more.

It is absolutely the best present that you could give to someone that you love and admire and this confirms it. Among others, the five billionaires on the Forbes list that received an MSB Storytelling original for their birthdays said: “It is the best present that I have ever received in my life…” and probably the only one they can’t buy for themselves!

If you want your story, your company story, or that of your family to be crafted into a bespoke book that can be treasured forever, why wait? We can help you.

Visit www.msbstorytelling.com | Contact vr@msbstorytelling.com