There are some commonly-accepted, sensible guidelines for throwing a book launch party. Find a convenient location. Set a realistic budget. Like that. I’m about to break the rules. The two books I’ve been writing about recently are finally coming off press. Beyond the Stones of Machu Picchu: Folk Tales and Stories of Inca Life and Faces […]

Maybe there’s something a little nutty about caring so much. Caring about commas, caring about split infinitives, caring about “I” before “e”, caring about dangling modifiers. Woops, I just wrote a big fat fragmentary sentence. Well, I don’t care so much about that. But show me a series that omits the “Oxford” or “Harvard” comma […]