Her blood holds secrets she never knew existed.Despite the fact that she acts as a parent to her alcoholic father, Gabby Creed feels pretty normal. But her life is turned upside-down on her seventeenth birthday when a bracelet appears on her wrist and sucks her back through time. Turns out she’s not even a little bit […]
Category Archives: For Writers
When Verbs Go Incognito: Participles, Gerunds, and Infinitives
‘Ello, loves. Today’s Get Your Grammar Fix(ed) features three infiltrators. Sometimes, verbs be sneaky. They masquerade as other parts of speech, sneaking into adjectival and adverbial roles, relishing the danger and inherent risk of undercover work. They look like verbs, but they play other roles: Participles.Gerunds.Infinitives.I won’t take long.Participles are verb forms with either progressive -ing endings […]
Spec-Fic: Realm Makers
Have you been enjoying the Spelunking Speculative Fiction series? It’s one of our very favorite (cavernous) genres to edit. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you can click on the author’s name below and catch up. So far, we’ve heard from Aaron Gansky (twice) Carla Laureano Autumn Kalquist Amanda G. Stevens Susan Kaye Quinn Serena Chase […]
Perfect Progressive Verbs
I hear Mike Myers–er, Linda Richman–in my head, hosting Coffee Talk, with the thick NY accent. “Perfect Progressive verb forms are neither perfect nor progressive. Discuss.” We’ll hit this one fast and hard, because honestly? There are only a few legitimate reasons to use the perfect progressive verb form. And there’s probably a better, simpler […]
Speculative Fiction: Imaginative Storyworld, Immediate Conflict
Very soon, The Book of Things to Come will be released. Image by Dana Song (I. Can. Not. Wait.) Book one of Aaron Gansky’s The Hand of Adonai series promises fantasy action, witty banter, video-gaming, monsters, and a team of four American kids–all pulled into Alrujah, a storyworld that will simultaneously enthrall you and rob of you […]
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