13/10/2016
A simple but effective trick!
How To Deflate Those Inflated Phrases
We receive many emails every day. We are bombarded with adverts, proposals, requests and reports. Why do we respond to some and ignore others? As I have said before, I ignore messages that are...
27/09/2016
10 Literary Restaurants for Hungry Book Nerds Around the World
What’s even better than drinking while reading? Eating while reading, of course (hint: you can have a drink, too). With the news that Biblio, a book-themed eatery, was popping up in Williamsb…
27/09/2016
This Is What English Actually Sounded Like 500 Years Ago
"Freshly they dresse and make swete my bowre"
11/09/2016
English is here to stay.
Britain may be leaving the EU, but English is going nowhere
Calls for English to be dropped as one of the official languages of the EU are likely to fall on deaf ears.
11/09/2016
How to help (and hinder) your typesetter - Editing Mechanics | Wordstitch
Copy-editors and proofreaders rarely get any direct feedback from the typesetter. This post bridges the gap by suggesting what's helpful and what's not.
11/09/2016
May your day be filled with wise decisions...like this one ;)
11/09/2016
An author interviewing her editor...very revealing!
5 things an editor wants fiction writers to think about
Editors get a bad rap among writers. But working with an editor can be an educational experience, as Nerine Dorman explains.
11/09/2016
Endangered words!!!
'Sonsy' campaign launched to preserve endangered American words
Fifty words and phrases have been identified as being ‘on the cusp of extinction’ by the Dictionary of American Regional English, which has enlisted podcasters to use them
11/09/2016
As is so often the case, context is everything.
The hardest word in the English language to translate is one of its most common
A new Ted-Ed video explains why what seems like a very simple English word is actually one of the hardest to translate into other languages.