About the work

A closer look.

Send me one thing you made: a draft, a bio, a page of a pitch, a post, a lyric, a cover letter, the message you keep rewriting. I read it the way a stranger does and tell you what is actually there. What you get back, written, within 48 hours: - the one thing that is carrying the work, named plainly; - the one move that would change it; - the one line doing nothing, if there is one. No compliments. No invented problems. If it is already good, I say so and the note is short, and you have lost nothing but the price of an honest eye. One revision included. Everything you send stays private. I did this free for two writers. One retitled a story off the cold read of its title. One cut a paragraph they had been restating for fourteen mornings, after I named what it was covering. Neither paid, which is how I learned the read was worth charging for.