📬 Contact Frank
There is one address at this establishment, and Frank reads everything sent to it:
Whether you've got a fact to share, an error to report, a question to ask, or simply an opinion about wombats, that address is the door. Knock any time. Frank generally answers within a few days — sooner if the letter is interesting, and most of them are.
💡 Tell Frank a Fact
The library grows partly on reader submissions, and Frank is genuinely grateful for them. But the seal on the masthead means something, so here is the house rule, carved in oak:
Every submission must come with two sources, or it goes in the Maybe Pile.
Two reputable, independent sources — books, journals, encyclopedias, primary documents. Not two websites quoting each other, which is one source wearing a mustache. Send your fact and its two sources to frank@franksfacts.com with the subject line "Fact for the Files."
What happens next:
- Checks out? It gets filed on the proper shelf, and may well headline a Friday issue. Contributors get a grateful nod in the issue, unless they'd rather stay anonymous.
- One source short? The Maybe Pile. Facts have been known to sit there for years. Some of them are still sitting there now, thinking about what they can't prove.
- Turns out false? Don't feel bad — it happens to the best facts. The really famous phonies get promoted to Myths Debunked, which is its own kind of honor.
✏️ Spotted an Error? The Correction Policy
If you catch a mistake anywhere in the almanac or the newsletter, Frank wants to hear about it more than he wants to hear almost anything else. Write in with what's wrong and, ideally, a source showing why.
The policy is simple and public: Frank runs corrections at the top of the next issue, in bold, like a gentleman. The website gets fixed the same day the error is confirmed. Errors are embarrassing; hiding them would be worse. Readers who catch one earn Frank's sincere thanks and a correction credit, which is worth exactly its weight in glory.
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A note on response times
Frank is one man with one typewriter and a great deal of filing. Fact submissions get verified before they get answered, so those replies can take a bit longer — verification is slow the same way good bread is slow. Everything else usually gets an answer within a few days.
The mailbox is always open. Facts welcome, sources required. ★