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How To Fix the Passive Voice Do you remember teachers imploring you to avoid the passive voice at all costs? The active voice is usually preferable, but there are exceptions. Learn when and how to use both to improve your writing.

Beautiful short stories with southern charm…

“Stories from Rami’s Cafe” by Dr. Steven Roberts

Don't forget that Steve Williams' memoir of life as a child of the road is available for summer reading. After losing his mother as a young adult, Steve leaves home to search for the love he lost and the self-love he needed to find. His interactions and adventures while hitchhiking are both moving as well as harrowing at times. Dedicated to his late mother, this is a beautiful tribute to survival and triumph of the spirit.

Krista reminds me “of the great people at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich who did my Contemporary World Poets book, and my editors at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Presses who did my translation of Euripides’ Andromache...taking the bit in [her] own teeth…. There are damn few saving angels left in the American publishing industry.” Donald Junkins, American Poet and Fulbright Professor Emeritus, U Mass, NEA winner

Congratulations to Tona Shinabery-King for her Honorable Mention at the LA Book Fair for “More Than a Mushroom Hunt.”

L Talbott Editorial supports women who are achievers: here are three, first-time female authors 50+ who have recently achieved their dreams of being writers:

L Talbott Editorial supports women who yearn to tell their stories in their own words....

UNBREAKABLE BOND: A Novel of Enduring Friendship In this poignant and unforgettable novel, Marie finds herself living the life she once imagined—one shaped by ambition, resilience, and a touch of luck. Though she speaks with conviction about her choices, her path was not without deception and unexpected turns. Still, everything seemed to fall i....