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ORAL HISTORY
Not a writer? We start with recorded interviews, so your story is told in your own voice.
EDITING
Transcribed, edited, and researched, your memoir takes shape.
TYPOGRAPHY
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Every image is enhanced to bring out faded details lost over time.
DOCUMENTS
Old letters, census records, ship manifests—historical records bring your story to life.
FAMILY TREES
Untangle the past with a custom chart showing the relationships that matter.
BINDINGS
Leather, fabric, embossing—choose the details that create an heirloom.
SPECIAL DETAILS
A slipcase, headbands, and ornamentation make your book as unique as the story inside.
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LUCKY TRADITIONAL DESIGN: This sample features: 7.5" x 10" size • full-color hardcover • leather spine • full-color pages throughout • archival-quality paper and ink • custom endpapers • sewn binding • custom slipcase
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ATLAS MODERN DESIGN: This sample features: 8" x 10" size • hardcover with full-color jacket • black linen cover • full-color pages throughout • archival-quality and acid-free paper
CLIENT HALL OF FAME
Mitchell Batavia
A self-published memoirist looks back on an unusual
editorial partnership
About a year ago, Samantha was hired by Mitchell Batavia to prepare a memoir for publication. The author was his brother, Andrew I. Batavia, a lawyer and activist with quadriplegia, who was responsible for writing part of the historic Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Drew had died twelve years before.
Mitchell (himself a professor and published author) and the Batavia family decided that the memoir should be published in time for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ADA, as a way of honoring Drew’s memory. The project proceeded at a breakneck pace to meet its deadline—and succeeded!
Samantha recently reminisced with Mitchell about their shared accomplishment:
Samantha Shubert: Looking back, do you feel different about the process or about the book, different than when you started?
Mitchell Batavia: It was amazing. I think that was the advantage of self-publishing, to be able to just plow it through, with the help of people like you, of course. I’m happy that I got it out, and I feel satisfied a year later that it’s out there. It’s really— It’s like giving birth, and then you hope that it has a life of its own.
SS: When you started this, you had a certain mindset. You had goals and expectations and an emotional feeling about it.
MB: Once we published, it was silence for half a year. And it felt like: Was this a total waste of time? Is it just going to be family members that read this thing? And it’s only recently that the publishing company is doing their reports. And I get these emails once a month, and I’m surprised that I get these royalties!
SS: [laughs]
MB: [laughs] The fact that there’s some business every month indicates that it may be taking on some traction. And that feels good. I just want people to read it, that’s all. I don’t care if they read it as a library book or whatever.
SS: Right, you just want it out there.
MB: And I feel very satisfied that we were able to finish the project. Would I have liked it to be a publishing company, instead of doing it myself? Well, I don’t know. I mean, I’ve learned a hell of a lot, doing it myself. I don’t need the status of finding a publishing house. I’ve done that already, and I feel, frankly, there’s almost no difference in the end product. You know, maybe they would have been able to get me a couple of mainstream reviews.
SS: You fixate on that.
MB: I know I do!
SS: Thinking about that crazy couple of weeks that we spent working on this, did you enjoy that?
MB: It was much harder doing that than writing it. I mean copyediting. I have a lot of respect for you. I mean, that is just [laughs], it’s just really— I don’t know what the word is. I’m sure you’ll come up with it.
SS: [laughs] Tedious?
MB: Tedious, tedious! It’s really tedious, and fatiguing, and when you’re doing it under a deadline, you know, it really is hard. But it was amazing, it was a good team. I wasn’t alone, I had you, which was really very fortunate.
Wisdom from a Chair: Thirty Years of Quadriplegia is available from Amazon.
Photo used with permission of Mitchell Batavia.
