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LATEST POSTS


  • How it feels to be immunocompromised in the age of COVID-19

    I want the word to get out about the attitudes of some folks right now. Sure, you say, “I’m healthy, strong, not high risk.” However, you can still carry the virus, some are even asymptomatic, and you can pass it along to someone with a compromised system and/or an older person. My husband is 70

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  • Take That, AP Style! Court of Law Rules the Oxford Comma Necessary

    Happy National Grammar Day!  Here’s a post from The Write Life on the Oxford comma debate. I adhere to this rule in my own writing and in the writings of those I edit. The reasons for using it are explained below. This settles the Oxford comma debate! Except…it goes against AP style. Here’s an overview

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  • When the Novel Was Dangerous | CrimeReads

    Exactly! This piece came to me from a fellow writer, and it’s confirmation for major activities in my life:  writing and reading. On the evening of Wednesday February 17, 1762, Kitty Hunter, aged 22, was introduced to Henry Herbert at a society ball at the house of Lord Middleton in London. Herbert was the 10th

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  • HBS Author’s Spotlight: Great Winter Reads 2020 from HBS Author’s Spotlight Bookshelf

    Source: HBS Author’s Spotlight: Great Winter Reads 2020 from HBS Author’s Spotlight Bookshelf

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  • WISHING YOU LIGHT AND LOVE

    Wishing you all a lovely season of beauty, love, and peace. I am grateful to all as we head into the second decade of the millennium. Love, P.C.

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  • AND ANOTHER ONE. . .

    AND ANOTHER ONE. . .

    How many times in the past two months have I said, I just can’t do it? Plenty–but those moments of doubt lasted brief seconds, and I’d go right back at it. And today the sixth book in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series, Love on Stage, releases. To me, the novel’s publication translates

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