As I said in my last blog post of 2013, I won’t be doing my month-end accountability posts this year. Instead, in keeping with my chosen theme for the year of moving forward, the last Monday of each month will feature a post designed to get us all thinking about some aspect of moving forward …
It’s the third Monday of the month, and that means it’s time to look at a grammatical question sent in by one of my readers. Today’s question has us looking at quotation marks. My thanks to the reader who sent this in. Here’s the question: I know when there’s a quotation, the end punctuation goes …
A Word with Beth about Quotation Mark Quandaries Read More »
This post is a heads-up notification that NEXT month in this time slot, the second Monday of the month, and moving forward into the months beyond, right here on this blog, there will be a blog series by Julie Gribble, writer, and director of New York Media Works, LLC. No, that picture to the left …
A post in anticipation of Julie Gribble’s blog series Read More »
Well, if the truth be told, some days getting out of bed in the morning is a challenge — but that’s not the sort of challenge I’m talking about. It’s January, the month in which people challenge themselves to do new things, or to do old things in a better way. That is true for …
Janus, the Roman god from whom the month of January derives its name, is usually depicted with two faces, one looking forward, one looking back. He was considered to be able to see both past and future at the same time. As I stand on the brink of another January, I find myself looking both …
Tomorrow, December 24th, is a very special day in the kidlit world, but we’re celebrating today, because early celebrations extend the joy. In our writing and reading community, there is a person who reads voraciously, writes book reviews by the score (both for his blog and for his local newspaper), has recently published his first …
Susanna Leonard Hill is having another of her wonderful story-writing contests! The Third Annual Pretty Much World Famous Holiday Story Contest is starting today and running through until Friday, December 13th at 11:59 p.m. EST. Finalists will be chosen by Susanna and her elves over the weekend, and voting for the winners will begin on …
No Deer This Year? Oh DEAR! (Holiday Story Contest Entry) Read More »
This post came into being due to a catalog that landed in the mailbox of my friend, Jan. She was delighted by the offerings in it, and knew I would be, too. Picture books with accompanying soft-toy animals? Lead me to them! I rushed to the website. I had a marvelous time. Oooooh! A stuffed …
