Nobody writes a book
from a blank page.
They write it from talking. So that is where Oshin starts — a call, in whatever language is easiest, with you or with whoever the story belongs to. It calls the people who were there too. Then it writes the thing and sends it to your door.
Encrypted end to end · Never trained on · Yours to delete, any time
You already know what you want to say. These prompts ask the right questions, catch what you’d have missed, and get it out of your head in your own voice.
01 · You talk
You talk. That is
the whole ask.
Oshin interviews you — on a call, in the car, on a walk, in whatever language comes easily. No blank page, no form, nothing to fill in.
It asks the next question the way a person would, and when the story belongs to someone else it calls them instead. It can call everyone who was there.
02 · Nothing invented
Every sentence traces
to a recording.
Nothing is invented to fill a gap. When two people remember the same night differently, both versions go in and the book says who remembered what.
Where nobody remembers, the book says that too, rather than writing something that merely sounds right.
03 · Provenance
Provenance you
can tap.
Not a promise — a control. Tap any line in the finished book and hear the recording it came from, see who said it, and read the question that prompted it.
It is the part nobody else can show you, because it is not a claim about the writing. It is the writing, with its sources still attached.
04 · It is not only four
One method,
several kinds of book.
The method does not change. What changes is who gets asked, and what the book is for.
About a parent, a grandparent, anyone who will not write it themselves
05 · It keeps writing itself
A memory arrives.
The book moves.
Say something new a year later — a name you finally remembered, a story your brother tells differently — and Oshin does not just file it. It finds the paragraph that memory changes and proposes the edit in place.
You accept it, tweak it, or throw it out. The writing is suggested; the book stays yours.
She measured nothing. Flour went in by the handful.
She measured nothing — the way her mother had, in a kitchen with no scales.
The proof
The first one we made
was my mother’s.
One interview with my mother became this book. Oshin is the machinery between the talking and the book — and it is the only one we have published, because we are still choosing which pages her family is comfortable showing.
9 × 11 inches · Layflat hardcover · Archival paper · Set by hand · Usually 80 to 140 pages
at Seventy
Start with twenty minutes.
That is enough for a first chapter. Sign up and Oshin will ask what you are making — you will know far more about whether there is a book here than you do now.