Tracing someone else’s life means that you must rely on secondary sources. There are no primary sources when writing about someone else’s life. There is no one quite like that someone to ask the many questions that you may have. There are documents, incomplete memories, and gaps. A biography is like an argument about a life with evidence. It is not a restatement of the life.
We explain that the research stage is longer than the writing stage. We also explain that archives often take a long time to respond to requests. Because of this, the last interview you need to conduct is often granted the furthest from when it is requested.
Just placing events in order doesn’t construct a life. It’s a contention concerning the person that the writer believes to be true about the subject’s behavior, which the writer squeezes against the facts and revises the contention when the facts prove resistant. Without that, the book is a sequence of years and readers are unable to determine what is important.
The subject’s fame determines the severity of confabulation. If you ask for a biography of a local industrialist, a model will merge it with another individual of similar name and the bio of a contemporary, assign them a company they never led, and even add incorrect death dates. There is no indication in the output of which sentences the model made.
The first step is a source audit to determine what resources are available, who is available to speak, and what needs to be kept closed until a certain date. That audit will tell you if the book you want to write is even possible. It is better to find out during week two that you are missing sources for the entire decade than during chapter eight.
This is where credibility is earned for a biography. Every quote was checked against the transcript or the document, every date was cross-verified if a second source was available, and every characterization was checked to see if it was justified by the evidence. This process is often repetitive, cyclical, and sometimes lengthy. After the first draft of an open biography is written, it must be continually updated, and it is not always clear when the project will end.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical biography | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short bio | 100 | $10 | $0.10 | $10.10 |
| Standard bio | 250 | $25 | $0.25 | $25.25 |
| Long bio | 500 | $50 | $0.50 | $50.50 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
A named human writer with a background in this kind of work. No model drafts, outlines, edits or researches any part of it, and nothing is run through an AI humanizer. Every draft is checked against multiple detectors before it reaches you.
A named human writer with a background in this kind of work. No model drafts, outlines, edits or researches any part of it, and nothing is run through an AI humanizer. Every draft is checked against multiple detectors before it reaches you.
Not all the time, but it can impact what you can use. In general, unpublished text and photos still stay under the copyright of the author’s estate, so an unauthorized book would need to find a way around that. We’ll inform you what requires clearance, and it is then your adviser’s legal call.
We report what the sources say. Should one of your favorite anecdotes turn out to be undocumented or contradicted, we provide the evidence and let you decide how to proceed. What we will not do is write around the fact to salvage a narrative.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
My novel took four years, and the back cover took three sentences and had me stumped for six weeks. The writer must have read the full manuscript (instead of the synopsis) which I know because the copy references a scene from chapter fourteen.
Chapter seven got me stuck for almost a year, and the suggested structure finally helped. Great outline, but the email with it was a two-sentence filler. I had to ask for a paragraph explaining the order of the chapters.
I had managed to write around 40 thousand words. Unfortunately those words didn’t provide any structure. When I received the feedback on this, it contained a merged chapter, one chapter completely removed (along with an explanation as to why) and the additional feedback stated that the chapter that had been removed was essentially doing the work of three chapters which I had already written. It was a bit painful to read, but correct.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
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Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
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