About Stories To Tell

Stories To Tell is a team of editors and book designers who help authors to create memoirs and family history books. We have worked with hundreds of authors to develop their fiction, non-fiction, and creative non-fiction. Your editor helps to plan the book's content, edits text and images, and designs a professional, unique book. Our authors may choose to publish privately or commercially. Stories To Tell serves authors nationwide.

Nancy Barnes

Nancy Barnes, the owner of Stories To Tell, is an award-winning writing teacher who has specialized in family history and memoirs. She is the author of Stories To Tell: An Easy Guide to Self Publishing Family History Books and Memoirs, a step-by-step process to plan, edit, design, and publish a book. Nancy created Stories To Tell to help authors with the technical support and guidance they need with manuscript development, editing, and book design services.

Merritt “Biff” Barnes

Biff Barnes is a writer, educator, and historian who has published extensively about San Francisco. He was a William Robertson Coe Fellow in American History at Stanford University. His experience with historical research, oral history, and academic writing is invaluable to family history authors as they plan and organize their books.

We are dedicated to historical preservation. In addition to the books we create, we help our clients to preserve precious family documents and photographs. Sound recordings, story transcripts, and digitized images prepared for each book are available on CD and are backed up in our archive.

International Society of Family History Writers and Editors