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Here's one I read twenty years ago, and still remember, so it must be good. I offered it to Dave, who was looking for a book to read. Dave looked at the cover and said "You're kidding, right?" I said "No, serious. You'll like it." He said "I don't like Science Fiction." I told him he'd like...

Dying to be Dead I think I'd throw the book away and watch Seinfeld on TV, and hope they'd hurry up and execute me before I had to watch too much.

Cover Art I think book covers do (often, not always) give a useful indication of the character of the book. Some are lurid, some busily cluttered, some cutesy psuedo avant-garde. I try not to waste time looking at them. It generally pays off. All that attention-grabbing stuff on the front...

Periods and ambiguity OK -- there are periods of all sorts. Games can be divided into periods, and we had periods when I went to school. Periods spent in a particular class, it meant. In this country, at this time, we rarely hear the words period and time uttered apart from one another...

Elipses Yeah …elipses are a bit old hat by now. Those dots spaced away from everything and with spaces between them, I'm thinking now, may be a throwback to the good old days of pushme-pullyou typewriters. Modern keyboards put them down the same way as printers of newpapers, books and magazines...

Cathy So some publishers are willing to give writers their heads… Well, hey, that's big of them. It might come as news to them that some writers are writing for readers, not for anal-retentive publishing executives, most of whom have never read a decent book in their lives. No wonder...

How about "Period of Time"? What else do those morons think there could be periods of?

Elipses A question I have puzzled over too. I use a lot of elipses -- too many, some might say. I answered the question to my own satisfaction by looking at well-presented text in good books. I can't remember finding any with spaces both before and after the words. As for spaces between the...