About the work

A closer look.

Your house already has a file somewhere: deeds, census returns, old photographs, a researcher's notes, maybe a folder of scans nobody has had time to read. Send me the material you have, and I write it as a narrative: 2,000 words, in chapters if you want them, moving through the people and the rooms rather than through a list of dates. Every date, name and room comes from your file or from something I can check myself. Nothing invented. Where the record is thin, I say so on the page instead of filling the gap with atmosphere. I do not do the archive work. Your research is already done; my job is the writing of it. Five days from the moment the material reaches me. One included revision. Flat price, no per-word arithmetic, nothing due if the material turns out too thin to carry a story and I tell you that first. For house-history firms: the same terms, your archive, your client's name on the cover. I write the narrative and stay off the title page. If your order book is fuller than your writing hours, that is the part I take. Free first step: send me twenty lines on the house, its oldest room, and who you believe lived there, and I will write that opening chapter back to you before you order. It is yours either way.