Make sure your train cars are connected with commas!

Now we’ve come to a little discussed comma usage that I bet you’ve rarely, if ever, thought about: using a comma to separate two coordinating adjectives that modify the same noun. Now without using industry jargon, that simply means you use a comma to separate two descriptive words that are referring to the same thing. […]

What to do now that CreateSpace is no longer providing editing services

This is what you should do before publishing your manuscript now that CreateSpace does not offer editing services.

The Superhero Serial Comma

When editing any document for my clients, the one comma-usage error that I encounter more than any other is the lack of a serial comma. While saying serial comma makes me hungry because I always think of Cornflakes when I say it, I still say it – all…the…time. Nothing drives me crazier as an editor […]

Of course I know how to use a comma!

In the beginning… I remember when my first piece was published. I was nine years old and from then on I felt like I could be a great writer. I even thought I knew the rules, better than others. Boy was I in for a surprise much later in life. As a child I wrote […]

UPDATE: January 2018

It has come to my attention that while I am a professional writer and editor, I have been blogging about issues that matter to me rather than sharing my professional advice with people looking for the writing and editing answers that I can provide. It’s just one of many mistakes on the road to successfully […]