The softer rooms
Once Upon Your Voice
Their story. Your voice. Forever.
Maureen writes the stories. Her daughter-in-law and co-founder, Ashley, guides the customer experience and keeps all the moving pieces working together with care. Once Upon Your Voice grew from the family they share and their desire to preserve the voices, stories, and people children never want to forget.
Maureen had always been the keeper of family lore: the funny moments, the story behind a photograph, the detail that becomes precious later. She could write a grandchild into a book. What she could not do was make the pictures look like the child, the dog, the porch.
Her eldest son, Murphy, asked the question that changed the work. What if the book could be read in the voice of someone the child loves? Not a narrator. Grandma. Dad. The person whose voice, from another room, already means you are home.
Ashley spent years inside a large company, then helped build businesses beside Murphy. She knows how fast a Tuesday becomes a day you would give anything to have back. Maureen is the storyteller. Ashley brings the organization, the customer experience, and the calm. The company is built the way the books are: around a kitchen table.
You don’t come to order a children’s book. You tell them about someone you love. A person writes the story. Technology helps make it. Love is the point.
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Their story
Not a name dropped into someone else’s plot. An original story made from the people, pets, places, and funny sentences that already belong to that child.
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Their world
Custom illustrations inspired by the child’s real world: Grandpa’s boat, Grandma’s garden, the dog by the bed, Uncle Gus’s truck, a beach they would know with their eyes closed.
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Your voice
A private listening experience. Someday a grown child opens the book, and Grandma is still the one reading it: cadence, laugh, accent, the way she says their name.