Work with Me
If you're here, you must be interested in seeing more clips or working with me. That's pretty awesome! Please email me in this format:
Subject: Attn: David – [company name] – [role] – [rate]
If reaching out to request additional clips or to see some of my ghostwritten work, use this format:
Subject: Attn: David – [company name] – [clip request]
AI-generated messages and requests for free work will be ignored. Attempts to sell me something or asking for a backlink will be sent to the spam folder. The whole point of this is to be a human who creates things for other humans. And I'm always interested in exciting new opportunities and projects. I look forward to working with you on your next project!
Services & Rates
For standard journalism work (news, editorials, features), my rates are negotiable, usually based on the scope of work and how long it will take.
For YouTube or podcast scripts, I charge a flat $200 for a maximum 2,000 word script.
For site-specific content, content marketing, link insertions, editing, SEO, B2B, rewriting/cleaning up AI content or similar work, please check out my rates page.
For podcast development, recording, editing, etc. rates are negotiable based on the scope of the project. Ditto for video editing and voiceover.
MSPaint commissions are a flat $50. Please reach out for info about guitar repair, lessons, and consultation.
To ensure I'm a good fit, please check out my samples before reaching out.
Expertise
I begin a project by researching the subject thoroughly. If it's about an individual or a piece of technology, I seek interviews and primary sources to establish initial research and write an outline. Once I've outlined an angle and flow of the piece, I begin gathering other research materials, from online resources to books and periodicals. This approach served my work well for my Microsoft guides on How To Geek.
I seek out different perspectives and sources, like when I wrote about how AI systems were disrupting the way we work in 2023, including discussions with developers and testing specific models to broaden my understanding.
For interviews, I spend some time getting to know my subject and building rapport prior to the interview itself. For my 2018 piece on Nintendo homebrew, for example, I interviewed a dozen developers to help me learn the development process. In my interview with musician Brent Black (Brentalfloss), I chatted with him for several days prior to publishing the piece that ended up on Digg’s front page.
I work best with niche topics, but can write about everything from tech and history to home improvement, music, comics, and the unexpected. Aside from writing, researching, editing, and data analytics, I'm also a management professional, with over two decade’s experience managing, training, hiring, recruiting, doing inventory, and running a large-scale operation.
AI and LLMs are not currently part of my workflow and I do not wish to engage with the narrative/conversation/whatever surrounding the technology at this time.
Let's work together! Just send me an email.