your story matters

written roots

At Written Roots we help you share what is most meaningful - your story.

Few things endure longer than the written word and with Written Roots your life story is preserved in a hardcover book that will nurture and inspire generations to come.

Over a cup of tea and a box of tissue, Written Roots is here to help you uncover, reflect, and preserve your life stories in print.

Our Services

  • Personal Histories

    Connecting generations through story.

    Working together with carefully crafted questions and a trained ear, Written Roots helps polish your memories into life stories. Bound in a beautiful hardcover book, stories and photos are preserved for the future.

  • estate histories

    A life well lived in a place well loved.

    Take a journey into the moments and memories that make your home your legacy. Written Roots crafts the story of your lived moments, in your sacred space, into a family heirloom, bound in a hardcover book.

is my story worth telling?

Absolutely.

our story

When it became clear my mother, Susan, was going to die from a disease she had been fighting for 30 years I knew I wanted to record her life story…

your biographer

emily worts

Emily Worts is a professional journalist with over two decades of storytelling experience. She is also an educator, professional cook, artist and lifelong cottager.