“Mabel and the Yellow Jackets” could be a great name for a punk band, but I put down my electric bass years ago. No, this is a 5,200-word tale about a woman fighting a kind of home invasion. Some of it could be construed as horror perhaps, but don’t worry. Mabel will protect you.
Everything ground to a halt. I was stunned and disheartened. The last thing I could do was laugh at the absurd toxicity of our politics.
Readers buy books all the time. Rare is the person who says, “I shall buy one and only one book this decade!” No, readers buy more than one book.
112 years ago, optometry was a growing profession. In diverse cities like San Francisco, however, the eye chart commonplace in western countries today could not suffice.
If you care about history, when handling precious old print books and documents you wear gloves (not cotton) to protect it from your skin oils. Now here’s another reason.
Then here are some tips from the fucking great Suzanne Reisman.
I generally don’t like to post negative reviews. What’s the point? So let me say right off that I did not hate the movie. It just left me feeling flat. I want to understand why. As a writer, I want to avoid these mistakes.
Aside from writing, I do book design, layout, and editing for others. This is my first post on the new site that touches on writing rules vs. “rules”—important considerations when you’re editing someone else’s prose.
