For Christmas: start your book by Sunday 22 November, and it arrives in time. How the timing works
A Christmas book
wewrote this Christmas book,
Every grandchild, aunt and cousin, a page each, gathered over a few weeks without anybody letting it slip,
Start a Christmas bookSee an example
A Christmas present from the whole family can be one book with a page from every one of them. With wewrote, you send one link; each person adds a photograph and a few lines from their phone in under five minutes, with no account. We lay out every page, print and bind the book in the UK and post it within 7 working days of your order. £34.99 for 24 pages, plus £5.99 delivery.
Who is usually in it
The whole family, near and far, and the friends who might as well be family,
What to ask them for
Send one of these with the link. A prompt gets a better page than a blank box,
- Your favourite Christmas with them,
- Something they taught you that you still do,
- What this year has been like, in a few lines,
The title
Who it is for, and the year. Christmas does the rest.
You write the cover yourself, so it can say anything. This is simply what works,
When to start
Start by Sunday 22 November for a book that arrives before Christmas. Most pages come in during the first few days; one reminder a week later brings in the rest.
Close the book and order it by Thursday 10 December. It is printed and posted within 7 working days, and the Christmas post is busy, so earlier is kinder.
£34.99 for 24 pages, plus delivery. No VAT to add,
Printed and posted within 7 working days, once you close the book,
Less than 5 minutes: one photograph, a few lines, from their phone,
How a Christmas book comes together,
- You start it
Who it is for, a title for the cover, and the look. A minute, and you get one link.
- Everyone adds a page
The whole family, near and far, and the friends who might as well be family. Each adds a photograph and a few lines from their phone, in under five minutes, with no account.
- We print it and post it
You see every page first. Close the book, order it, and it is printed in the UK and posted within 7 working days.
Questions people ask,
What does it cost?
£34.99 for a 24-page book, then £1.99 for every two pages beyond that. Delivery is £5.99, tracked, within 7 working days. Leaving the wewrote, mark off the cover is £4.99.
Nothing is charged while the book is being filled. You pay once, at the end, when you have read it and are happy.
Does anyone need an app or an account?
No. You send a link, people open it in whatever browser is already on their phone, write something, add a photograph or four, and that is the whole thing. Five minutes.
You do not need an account either — though you can sign in with your email address to find your books again if you lose the link.
Do I need twenty friends?
No, and this is the thing most people worry about. 24 pages is simply the smallest book a printer will bind, so every book is at least 24 pages whatever happens, at £34.99. Any pages nobody wrote on are printed as clean white pages, ready to be written on or filled with photographs later.
If eight people write, you get eight pages of messages and the rest are printed as clean white pages — with a line on the first saying what they are for. Plenty of people write two or three pages themselves to start it off. A short book with good pages in it is better than a long one padded out.
Your people could write this,
Or another occasion: every occasion