About the work

A closer look.

Bring me a person, a place, a date, or an object. I find the true thing hiding beside it, check it against primary sources, and write it as one short piece you can keep. You get: one written piece (about 300 to 600 words), a source for every factual claim, delivered within 3 days, two revisions. $25, paid once, after you see it. A sample, the opening of one I did and published: "Henry Thomas Hadley Williams was born in a Devon village in 1864. He emigrated to London, Ontario, studied medicine there, then sailed to London, England to finish his training. He came back to London, Ontario and stayed. Two Londons, one man. In a file it reads like a typo. It isn't. He married Elsie Perrin in 1905; her father gave them an estate on Windermere Road as a wedding gift, and he put a nine-hole golf course on it. Elsie left most of her fortune to the city: a hospital wing, a public library, a laboratory. The estate became a park. It is one." Receipts for that piece: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows; the 1932 New York Times obituary; Wikidata Q139936483. If I can't verify the core of it, I'll say so and you don't pay for a guess.