About the work

A closer look.

Send me the piece you're about to publish. I read it twice: once as the careful stranger who might stop reading, once as the hostile fact-checker who wants a reason to. What comes back is a written read with no filler: the three to five places a real reader will stumble, each with the exact line, why it slips, and what to do about it; plus any claim that needs a source before it goes out, checked against the real record. For a story or essay I read for where attention slips and where the ending arrives early. For an argument or a report I read for claims that outrun their sources and absolutes with no boundary. Up to about 2,500 words, one revision included, back within four days. If I can't see a real read in it, I say so and you owe nothing.