Under EU and German consumer law (§ 312g BGB / EU Directive 2011/83), you have 14 days from purchase to withdraw — provided your letter has not yet been submitted. Submission constitutes your explicit request to begin the individually performed service, at which point the right of withdrawal lapses under § 356 Abs. 4 BGB. Your submission must be made within 90 days of purchase; unredeemed pages after this period are non-refundable. After submission, you have 14 days to request removal before design begins. A formal withdrawal form will be included in your order confirmation email. AlmaA commits to acknowledging every submission within 14 working days.
Some feelings — grief, love, gratitude, transformation — need a page of their own. Some people deserve more than a memory that fades. Letters to Life is the AlmaA anthology: a real, printed book where your letter lives permanently, beautifully, alongside others who chose to preserve something that mattered.
You choose one of twelve emotional themes. You write your letter — 300 to 500 words — to a person, a memory, a feeling, or a version of yourself. We receive it, design your page with care, and print it in the AlmaA Book alongside letters from others who carried something worth remembering. Your page exists forever.
Letters to Life comes with something no ordinary anthology offers: awards. Some of our partners — brands, artists, and curators within the AlmaA world — read through the pages and personally choose their favourites. They may decide to send a gift to the author of the page that moved them. We share nothing without your permission. AlmaA also has its own awards for Letters to Life — to be announced when the anthology is complete. Write something deep. Write something human. Write something that would touch another soul. That is the only criterion that has ever mattered.
A letter to a person who is no longer here — the things you needed to say and never got to.
The wisdom, the compassion, the truth you wish someone had handed you when you needed it most.
A letter to the teacher, the stranger, the mentor whose presence quietly rewrote your story.
The city, the room, the street, the view — the geography of a memory that made you who you are.
The year that broke you, then rebuilt you. A letter to the season that changed everything.
A letter sealed for the version of you who will one day look back. What do you want them to remember?
Romantic, platonic, familial — a letter to the love that shaped your understanding of the word.
The version of the future you once held — not with regret, but with the dignity it deserves.
Imagine you had one chance to meet Life in person. What would you ask? What would you expect it to answer? This letter is open-ended, rhetorical, personal — a conversation with the force that brought you here.
One moment — an ordinary Tuesday, an unexpected conversation — that turned everything around.
Words for the ones you are raising, or the ones you hope to have one day. What you want them to know when you are no longer there to say it.
Strip away every label — every side, every category, every division the world has given you — and what is left? A person, experiencing life for the first time, exactly as you are. Write to that person. The one you might have called an enemy. The stranger across the aisle. Someone whose life looks nothing like yours. Write to the part of them that is not different from you at all. Because underneath everything that separates us, there is the one thing that never does: we are all here for the first time, figuring this out, carrying something.
€15 — Page Only. Your letter is designed and printed permanently in the Letters to Life anthology. A copy of the finished book can always be added later when it is released.
€50 — Page + Copy of the Book. Everything above, plus a physical copy of the finished book. We reach out before it ships to confirm your address or preferred bookstore. Nothing leaves without your go-ahead.
You may withdraw from this purchase within 14 days of completing your order, provided you have not yet submitted your letter. Your submission must be made within 90 days of purchase; after this window the page reservation lapses and the fee is non-refundable. Once your letter is submitted, the individual service begins at your explicit request and the right of withdrawal lapses under § 356 Abs. 4 BGB. After submission, you have 14 days to request removal before design begins. A formal withdrawal form will be included in your order confirmation email.
300 to 500 words. In your own voice. At your own pace. After purchase you receive a private, secure submission portal — yours alone. Your submission window is 90 days from the date of purchase. If you have not submitted within 90 days, your page reservation lapses and the fee is non-refundable. This keeps the book in motion.
There are no rules beyond honesty. There are, however, AlmaA Guidelines — a short read that tells you what this space is for and what it gently asks to leave outside. Every submission passes through our content review before entering the anthology. We want every word you write to count.
The AlmaA team takes your words and gives them a home — your name, your theme, your letter, formatted in the AlmaA style. Read it over before you send it. When you are ready, submit it — you have 90 days from purchase. When you submit, that is your moment. Design begins from there.
Once submitted, your letter enters the design process and the order is final. You have 14 days from the date of submission to request removal — write to letters@thealmaa.com and your letter will be removed from the production queue. After those 14 days, the page is in design and cannot be withdrawn. In line with GDPR (Art. 17 DSGVO) and § 356 Abs. 4 BGB, the processing fee is non-refundable once the individual service has begun. Estimated time from submission to completion: 4–8 weeks. We will keep you informed.
When the anthology reaches its page capacity, we go to print. Your page is permanent. This book does not go out of print — it goes into homes, onto shelves, and quietly into the future.
If you chose the €50 option, we reach out before shipping to confirm where it should go. If you chose €15 and want a copy when the book is ready, you will be among the first to know.
The AlmaA Book has a finite number of pages. When it is full, it goes to print — and there is no waitlist after that. The people who claimed their page will have a piece of something permanent. The ones who thought about it and waited will not. This is not a deadline technique. It is simply how a real, printed book works.