Jennifer Lane Books Blog

Ho hey, it's MAY! My favorite season of summer is upon us, and I can't wait to swim in the sunshine and absorb vitamin D. Just yesterday, Dancing Lemur Press released the latest IWSG anthology, Masquerade: Oddly Suited . I'm delighted to join nine authors penning short stories. Check out all of the blogs to read blurbs and learn more about these diverse, engaging characters! L.G. Keltner  https://lgkeltner.blogspot.com/ Jennifer Lane  http://jenniferlanebooks.blogspot.com Deborah Solice  https://thefabulistdotblog.wordpress.com/ CD Gallant-King  http://www.cdgallantking.ca/ Elizabeth Mueller  https://elizabethmueller.blogspot.com/ Chelsea Marie Ballard  https://www.facebook.com/masqueradeoddlysuited Carrie-Anne Brownian  http://carrieannebrownian.wordpress.com Myles Christensen  www.myleschristensen.com Anstice Brown  https://dustingthesoul.com Angela Brown  http://publishness.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Al...

Have I mentioned how much I love the editing team at Omnific Publishing? Jessica Royer Ocken has taught me so much about the right way to write. Mostly I'm grateful for this knowledge. But there are times when I think I've learned too much, like when typos and grammar gaffes interfere with my enjoyment of a novel. I'll be happily reading a story with good plot and characterization but then halt, wide-eyed, with horror. Blond is an adjective, BLONDE is a female noun! A comma doesn't belong there, people! It's e ffect, not a ffect, when describing a noun. Editing know-how also drives me up a tree when friends make an error in language. I mean, really--who cares ? I'm nowhere near perfect at the spoken or written word. Yet when a colleague says something like "It's the same for her and I", I want to shout "Her and ME! It's ME, not I!" Today my psychotherapy client told me she "could care less" about something...