Writers and Editors
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Writers and Editors (Pat McNees's blog)16th edition of Chicago Manual of Style released August 2010July 22, 2010
You can now order the new 16th edition of the The Chicago Manual of Style , the style bible for books and some magazines. This time it is simultaneously releasing a subscription to an online edition) (more…)
What's wrong with that sentence?September 21, 2009
Sometimes examples of media inattention to copyediting cry out for public comment. Take the lead sentence in this ABC News story: "Police in Washington state captured a schizophrenic killer who had escaped during an outing from the mental hospital where he had been committed to a state fair." (more…)
Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant ApostropheSeptember 5, 2009
In his classic column about abuse of the apostrophe, Keith Waterhouse wrote, "The AAAA has two simple goals. Its first is to round up and confiscate superfluous apostrophes from, for example, fruit and vegetable stalls where potato's, tomatoe's and apple's are openly on sale. Its second is to redistribute as many as possible of these impounded apostrophes, restoring missing apostrophes where they have been lost, (more…)
Abandon HopefullyJuly 17, 2009
I used to have a little sign above my office door that said "Abandon hopefully all ye who enter here," and for years I've tried not gritting my teeth when people said things like, "Hopefully it won't rain." My poor daughter grew up with this bias against using "hopefully" in the sense of "it is hoped," (more…)
Check out Roy Blount's Alphabet Juice (and other first chapters of books)May 4, 2009
"I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies," writes Roy Blount Jr., "and every time you write very unique, or 'We will hire whomever is more qualified,' thousands of literate people lose yet another little smidgen of hope. (more…)
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Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to articles So, You Want to Write a Book!
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