Sex, Semicolons and Split Infinitives
Add comment June 16th, 2009
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Expect no less of a title from former Register Star news editor Joyce Lamb, who is a suspense-romance novelist and copy editor at USA TODAY.
She is writing “Sex, Semicolons and Split Infinitives” on her humorous serialized fiction blog, “Save the Copy Editor, Save the World.” The point? You get hooked on the mystery but receive “word nerd” advice — aka, grammar tips — along the way.
People who post comments on the blog have the chance to win a signed copy of one of her books. I’ve read “Relative Strangers” and “Caught in the Act” (a newspaper thriller). I think I’ve read “Found Wanting,” too. It’s been a while.
Lamb, a 1983 Jefferson grad, left Rockford in the late 1990s. Many also remember her father, Joe, a legendary “old school” RRS editor who passed away in 2003.
You can follow Lamb on Twitter, too!
P.S. Don’t forget our own word guy, Barry Wood, with his Wood on Words blog.
