Our lead editor, Mary Bagg, recently blogged in this blog: "The moral of the story is not a new or terribly exciting one—if you want a letter (or an email) to be taken seriously you had better make a serious attempt to ensure that it is error free." Today I got this Skype typo (which I
Lots of amusing notes about punctation and capitalization, illustrated with photos, on a blog called The Joy of English.
By Karen Christensen A terrific essay in the Wall Street Journal that will be useful to our Berkshire Publishing authors and to anyone struggling late at night or in the hours before dawn to finish some piece of writing they've promised but not found time to work on during our increasingly crowded days. The idea of
But if you have to (and that should be so rare as almost not to need a rule), the Modern Language Association advises: Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author’s real name and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ. If only the user name is known, give it
By Mary Bagg My husband Bob, who is a poet and a translator of ancient Greek drama, got an email out of the blue yesterday inviting him to speak for an hour on 30 April 2012 at King’s College in London (Strand Campus) about a rather daunting topic, the “Mystery of Life and Death.” The person
I received an email today from an author named Norman Moss, who had read my letter in the UK Society of Authors magazine, The Author. He has kindly given me permission to post his email here. Yes, we are now on first-name terms. Dear Ms. Christensen, I have only just come across your letter in The
By Mary Bagg Conversations about Mormonism during these early months leading up to the US presidential campaign have been notable, notes Berkshire’s CEO Karen Christensen, for a lack of knowledge of the basics tenets of the faith, except for the avoidance of coffee and Coke. Berkshire has decided to combine some of the articles we’ve published
Bill Siever's first ever blog post. In the coming weeks I will (finally!) get started blogging in earnest. For material for this blog, I plan to mine my daily interactions with authors, editors, and others in the course of working on our 10-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability. I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to interact
By Mary Bagg Every once in a while I’m copied on an email exchange in progress and asked to police a point of style or grammar that has the sender in a quandary. My job is to render a quick decision (more as a judge than a law enforcement officer) and to hand down the ruling
It's fortuitous that the "On Point" blog was going live today, because this coincides with the delivery of an issue of The Author, the quarterly magazine of the UK Society of Authors. I've already heard from two people about my letter to the editor, which was inspired by our work on the Berkshire Manual of Style
