I'm Allan Gould, an author, journalist, lecturer and speechwriter, specializing in humour. Living in Toronto, Canada, but born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, I have dual citizenship. Thus, I am able to work anywhere, and for anyone. Since the mid-1970s when I left university teaching, until today, I've been freelancing, and I may be just the person you are looking for: as a ghostwriter to help you write a dynamic corporate history; as the man who can get that essential speech written for you; as The One you need to entertain clients or shareholders at your annual meeting. I often think to myself that my Ph.D. in English hasn't been used very much, once I moved out of academia and into full-time writing. But that's not true: during those challenging years of penning a 600-page doctoral thesis, I learned to research accurately, interview thoughtfully, and write quickly. As I've written 30 books and over a thousand magazine articles since 1981, I'm clearly fast, and extremely prolific. (Only two children, though). In all due modesty, I believe that there are few people who have the skill and passion to make the dullest, most technical speech dynamic and even funny, and turn the most commonplace corporate history, life story, magazine profile or company brochure into a potent publication. If you need a brochure done almost overnight; a book created from scratch and published by a quality house in but a few months; your 50th wedding anniversary talk written before it's your 60th, I'm no further than a telephone call or email away. I hope you enjoy my website and that it gives you a sense of what I've done -- and a picture of what I can do -- for you and/or your company. ..................................................................................................A,Allan M. Gould ..................................................................................................A,Toronto, Ontario