Giveaway Closing

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The monthly giveaway for February will be closing in just a few hours! Be sure to enter if you haven’t already. I have a limited window in the office tomorrow, so it’s possible I won’t be able to announce February’s winner until Sunday or Monday. I’ll be sure to post and contact the winner as soon as possible, and get March’s contest up an running.

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Thirteen Things I Watch Way Too Often

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Thanks to the Lake Placid reunion, I got to thinking about my addiction to a certain movie. And that gave rise to a list of thirteen things I watch way too often. Some of these I watch out of habit, some for comfort, some to keep me company while I’m working or doing housework. Regardless, I have seen these things just too many times: 13. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I know, right? I wouldn’t believe it of me, either. But what a great story. 12. Miracle I know they took some liberties, but I love it for what it is: five parts inspiration, three parts joy and one… Read More

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Passive Vs. Boring

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Welcome to a post about [probably] the most misunderstood pair of phrases in the world of editing: “Passive Voice” vs. “Boring Voice” Passive Voice is about one thing, and one thing only: the relationship between a sentence’s subject and object. Key: Subject Object Active structure: Tom sat on the chair. Passive structure: The chair was sat upon by Tom. In passive sentence structure, the object is being acted upon by the object, rather than the subject simply acting on the object. Passive structure almost always involves some form of the verb “to be”, which includes forms like ‘was’ and ‘had been’. Which is also how “passive voice” is so often… Read More

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Nail-biting Time

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Over the last couple days, I’ve been working on swapping Help Wanted from the old distributor over to the new. Availability will be weird, and site links will be even weirder. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Links will update as soon as everything’s sorted. Until then, the best bet is to search your favorite retailers directly.

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