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September 10, 2017 Quote / Uncategorized

Gordon B. Hinckley on Humor and Smiles

We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken

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July 22, 2015 Uncategorized

Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s Ten Editing Tips, For Your Fiction Mss.

Margaret Atwood’s Ten Editing Tips, for your Fiction Manuscript, has caught my eye. Especially tip #6: 6. Readers are readers.

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April 25, 2015 Uncategorized

State of America’s Libraries: top ten most challenged books in 2014

The American Library Association released its report on the “State of America’s Libraries” last week. The report includes a list

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March 16, 2015 Uncategorized

Language and Grammar In the News… Week of March 15, 2015 – “TED Talks”

Sorry all… it was a rough week here (I was sick for half of it), so I’m a day behind

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March 3, 2015 Uncategorized

Cover Reveal for ONE HUNDRED THIRTY STARS by Shelley Sly

I’m thrilled to share with you the cover of the latest middle grade fiction novel by Shelley Sly.  If you

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March 3, 2015 Uncategorized

Happy National Grammar Day

Language, be it remember’d, is not an abstract construction of the learn’d, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out

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March 2, 2015 Uncategorized

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Dear Dr. Seuss (or Theodor Seuss Geisel), You have always been a part of my life. I read your books

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March 2, 2015 Uncategorized

Making Order out of Chaos

Rule 17: Omit needless words — Strunk & White “The Elements of Style”  I see editing as a collaborative process. 

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February 22, 2015 Uncategorized

Weird up your story with fold-ins and cut-ups

Originally posted on Great (book) expectations:
Inject a dose of the weird and wonderful into your stories with fold-ins and cut-ups It…

January 1, 2015 Uncategorized

Call for submissions… “Katrina Plus Ten” – an anthology

Elysian Fields Press LLC, of Metairie, Louisiana, is seeking submissions of prose, poetry, and artwork for its forthcoming anthology, Katrina

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November 18, 2014 Uncategorized

Pick Your Poison : A Faery Tale Therapy Anthology… Coming THIS WEEK

Enter Our World of Faery Tale Therapy… The Doctor will See You Now The latest anthology I edited, coming this

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November 10, 2014 Uncategorized

Free this week : Hot Blooded by Kendall Grey

Hey Everybody… Check out my friend Kendall Grey’s latest, Hot Blooded.  It’s free for three days this week! – November

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November 1, 2014 Uncategorized

A Full Irish Holiday

Originally posted on Pete Morin:
It looks like this Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season is going to be Full Irish. This political suspense…

September 26, 2014 Uncategorized

Friday Funnie

September 23, 2014 Uncategorized

Crawling out from under the editing desk…

snoopy comic copyright charles schultz and peanuts. Happy Fall!  Wow, where did the summer go? I spent part of it

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