The Rooms Journals

Guided journals by Michael C.

The time between what happened and now

We tell our stories in three parts: what we were like, what happened, and where we are now. These journals are for the part nobody writes down, the years of meetings in between. Large print, room to write, and anonymity throughout.

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Large-print edition
The Meeting
Historian
A Thirty-Day Journal of the Weekly Rounds
Michael C.

Three titles

Each one covers a different stretch of the week

Every title prints in four versions: a pocket edition that fits a coat, a regular paperback, a hardcover, and a large-print edition set at sixteen point for anyone who has stopped enjoying small type.

Ordering runs through the form below while the Amazon listings go up. The button beside a journal fills in which one you picked.

Large-print edition
The Meeting
Historian
A Thirty-Day Journal of the Weekly Rounds
Michael C.

The Meeting Historian

Old-timers do not live in one meeting. They keep a weekly routine, several meetings across several days, kept up for years. Thirty days of prompts catch that pattern before it is lost, one a day with room to write, then thirty open pages for a life lived in the rooms.

161 pages Pocket $8.99 Paperback $10.99 Hardcover $18.99 Large print $13.99
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Large-print edition
Between
Meetings
A Guided Reflection Journal in Four Sections
Michael C.

Between Meetings

The steps, the fellowship, and the days in between. Twenty prompts across four sections, arriving, the work, the people, and gratitude, with room to write on the days a meeting does not reach.

122 pages Pocket $8.99 Paperback $10.99 Hardcover $18.99 Large print $13.99
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Pocket edition
Take It
With You
A Meeting Notebook, Ninety Entries
Michael C.

Take It With You

A meeting leaves with you before it is over. This notebook is where that stays, one page a meeting, ninety entries, for what you are taking with you and nothing you heard from anyone else.

110 pages Pocket $8.99 Paperback $10.99 Hardcover $18.99 Large print $12.99
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A finished journal is yours. Keep it private, hand it to family, or leave it with your home group. Any of those is a good ending.

There is one more option. Send it in and we transcribe it, read every page to protect anonymity, and print it back as a bound keepsake. With your written permission your story can also join a collective volume, so the leads and the long weeks outlast the people who kept them.

You choose how it is signed: first name and last initial, the way AA publications have done it for decades, or no name at all.

Nothing is printed without your signature on the consent form, you can change your mind any time before printing, and anyone else mentioned in your pages is made anonymous whichever option you pick. Leave a box blank and we use the most protective reading: Anonymous, your keepsake only, and your journal posted back to you.

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Typeset and printed as a new hardcoverTranscribed, anonymity reviewed, set in large print at six by nine.
$90
Your own journal reboundYour handwriting, cased in hardcover by a Brooklyn bindery. Hand work, so we quote your journal before you commit.
$175 to $275
Extra copiesFor family, or for the home group.
$45 each

Prices include return shipping inside the United States. Payment is due when your journal arrives and comes back in full if you change your mind before printing. If a quote lands above that range we tell you the number and you decide. We never start work on a price you have not seen.

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Your original is scanned when it arrives and posted back by tracked mail, or destroyed securely if you prefer. It never goes to an outside vendor by post. If we are ever unable to continue, every journal in hand goes back to the person who wrote it, and a named backup holds written instructions to do exactly that.