Martha Brockenbrough asked me to host National Grammar Day (March 4) this year, so in an irrational fit of exuberance–and with the help and patient support of Erika Paul Carlson (The Jazz Lady) and Michael Eardley (Tanglewood Productions); my husband agreeably following us around with a camera; and clips from my friends Rob Reinalda, Mark [...]
January 24, 2010 – 9:51 AM
People are posting messages on my Facebook page incorrectly stating that split infinitives are against the rules in English and that good writers should not split infinitives. I needed to take immediate action to dispel this myth. The authoritative Bryan Garner says in “Garner’s Modern American Usage,” “Although few armchair grammarians seem to know it, [...]
December 9, 2009 – 9:58 AM
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October 22, 2009 – 3:01 PM
People often ask me what is the one book I couldn’t live without, and the answer is Garner’s Modern American Usage, which is why I was shocked to receive the message below (which I trimmed) from the author this morning saying bookstores are not stocking his book: I need your help in sending a message [...]
October 21, 2009 – 9:04 AM
Buried near the end of an article about Barnes & Noble’s new ereader, Nook, I found this tidbit: “the device supports a user’s pictures and MP3s (it includes a speaker and headphone jack…” The Nook also supports RSS subscriptions, but only those approved by B&N and in an ebook format called ePub. Further, if you [...]
September 2, 2009 – 2:59 PM
Douglas Cootey (@SplinteredMind at Twitter) tells me that Snow Leopard, the new Mac operating system, has a text substitution function that you can set up so it inserts an interrobang (‽) when you type something such as ?! Here’s how Douglas says to do it: Go to System Preferences>Language & Text>Text (to define the replacements [...]
August 15, 2009 – 12:00 PM
A dirty secret of the book publishing industry is that millions of books are pulped (shredded) each year. For example, the BBC reported in 2001 that “Up to one million books per month are being pulped in Britain.” Despite this enormous excess of inventory, I recently heard from someone who complained that inner city kids [...]
Tyler (@tdhurst) wondered whether there is a special name for words that can be both a noun and a verb, such as “paint” and “run.” I didn’t think so, but I wasn’t sure, so I put the question out to my Twitter friends. The Twitter favorite seems to be to make up a new word [...]
Evo Terra, co-author of Podcasting for Dummies (with Tee Morris) and founder of Podiobooks.com, talks about authors who release their books as free audio at his site. Topics we covered include Success stories What doesn’t work? Tips for producing a good audiobook How does having the audiobook out there free affect the ability to publish [...]
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