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Sunday, June 29, 2014

June Casagrande on Prefixes--and Chicago Stylebook for Authors

Thinking the authors who follow this blog will want to know June Casagrande better, but especially this column which makes that fine distinction I love--the one between the AP style book and Chicago. Here is her latest column. Enjoy. Read through to the end where she mentions that difference!

http://www.burbankleader.com/opinion/tn-blr-a-word-please-a-certain-prefix-is-driving-her-coconuts-20140627,0,6730817.story

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson edits, consults. and speaks on issues of publishing. Find her The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success (How To Do It Frugally series of book for writers). Learn more about her other authors' aids at www.howtodoitfrugally.com/writers_books.htm , where writers will find lists and other helps including Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips on the Resources for Writers page. She blogs on all things publishing (not just editing!) at her Sharing with Writers blog. She tweets writers' resources at www.twitter.com/frugalbookpromo . Please tweet this post to your followers. We all need a little help with editing. (-:

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