If you order a bunch of your own books and your special storage area down there in the pole barn is all snowed in, yer gonna have to break out…View post

Pursuant to my recent post on copyeditors, below are some of the comments left by the copyeditor of my most recent manuscript (book due out in August). Even out of…View post

Dead at 43, it appears not by bombs or bullets as might have been expected, but rather health issues in extremis. I have nothing to add to what I wrote…View post

Just recently my editor taught me when to use “elder daughter” instead of “eldest.” Today my copyeditor taught me that these {} are called French braces. Sometimes I get questions…View post

For the students of PCIS, here are the images we worked with today when we spoke about writing and revision (if you click on the pictures, you will see a…View post