I’m often happy that English is my first language. There’s one exception after another whether it’s irregular verbs, spelling, pluralizations, and the list goes on. It’s house and houses but not mouse and mouses. It geese not gooses, but more…
Month: April 2013
Character Counts
Character counts. That’s your character as opposed to counting characters in your Twitter feed. “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wind, and only character endures.” ~ Horace Greeley.
Perplexed by Publishing
I’m about to head to an annual children’s literature conference again. I certainly look forward to honing skills, learning more about the industry, having work critiqued, and meeting industry players. Maybe I’ll get my foot in the door. I’m still…
Words Matter
Consecutive vs. concurrent. It turned out to be a tragically big deal. Whether is was a clerical error or omission (or series of them), the end result is the same: three dead. Evan Ebel was incorrectly released four years early…
