You talk. Charlie listens. Their voice and their story, kept.
Charlie interviews you properly — unhurried, curious, asking the things nobody ever quite got round to asking. Family can join in. What comes back is a beautifully written book, and the recording itself, edited into something you’ll want to play again.
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Meet Charlie
The world’s first virtual ghostwriting experience, built on the craft of bestselling ghostwriter Teena Lyons. There’s no manual and nothing to learn — Charlie simply asks, listens, and starts shaping a story. Try it now, out loud.
A REAL CONVERSATION, IN YOUR BROWSER. NO FORMS, NO SIGN-UP.
The Promise
In a few months, the person you love will hold a beautifully printed book in their hands, with their name on the cover. They will be an author and the subject of the most incredible 'This is your life' style audio documentary. Their voice, their turns of phrase, the stories told only at the kitchen table, set down properly, and kept for the generations who come after.
Why Teena
For two decades, Teena Lyons has been the writer behind the books — the one trusted to find a person's voice and commit it faithfully to the page.
She has collaborated on more than eighty books, among them multiple number one bestsellers, an award-winning business title, and books shortlisted and honoured on both sides of the Atlantic. Discretion means many will never carry her name. What unites them is a craft refined over twenty years: the patience to listen, the ear for how a person actually speaks, and the judgement to know which stories matter.
Selected credentials
Penguin Random House · The Times Business Book of the Year, 2020
“A banking blockbuster.”
Observer Magazine
“If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it.”
Financial Times
“A refreshingly sensible look at an area plagued by hype and mythology.”
Management Today
“The best management book…in a long while.”
Evening Standard
“A bold retelling of the Mahabharata's origin story.”
Books Beyond
“It really is Bridget Jones meets 50 Shades.”
Reader review
Not an exhaustive list. For reasons of confidentiality, a number of titles have been omitted.
That same method now sits at the heart of Tell Charlie. There is one of Teena, and only so many rooms she can sit in — which is why, until now, her craft has been the preserve of those who could commission a book outright. She has built her method into a guide you can talk to whenever you like, and she stands behind every chapter with her own editorial judgement.
The Journey
There is nothing to install and nothing to figure out. You arrive with your memories; you leave with a finished book and an audio documentary. Between the two sits a guided journey, designed by Teena: Charlie — her ghostwriting agent, trained on twenty years of her craft — to talk to day to day, and Teena's own editorial judgement behind every chapter.
It starts the way every good memoir does — by talking. Charlie is on hand whenever you are: late evening, a quiet Sunday, ten minutes between things. She asks the questions Teena would ask, listens, and gently follows the thread.
From those conversations, chapters take shape — drafted in Teena's editorial style, with her judgement about pace, structure and what to keep. You read, you reflect, you correct a name. The book grows in your own voice.
The journey ends with an object: a beautifully produced hardback, professionally typeset and bound, with your name on the spine. Copies for the family, a place on the shelf, a story that will outlast all of us.
Enrolment
One complete experience, from first conversation to finished book.
The complete journey, from first interview to bound hardback, guided by Teena's methodology and the patient, day-to-day attention of her agent Charlie.
Teena's bespoke ghostwriting service starts at £35,000. Tell Charlie makes her methodology accessible to everyone.
The Gift of Being Heard
An enrolment makes an extraordinary gift — for a milestone birthday, an anniversary, a retirement, or simply because the stories should be kept before they fade. You enrol on their behalf; we send a beautifully presented welcome, and the guided journey takes them gently from there. They need only talk.
Some gifts are enjoyed for a moment. This one lasts for generations.
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