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Feb.09.2013 The Myth of Salvation and Redemption - The Absurdity of Sin and Forgiveness I have long pondered the ideas of redemption and salvation: sin and forgiveness. In spite of the vast amount of religious ideals and other faith-based ideologies, it is significantly rare that there has ever been a substantial and realistic result other than asking and begging forgiveness from the...	Oct.02.2011 Shoddy eBooks Cause Trouble For Kindle Readers . How Should Publishers Respond to eBook Errors?By Jason Boog Today Amazon wirelessly replaced the eBook version ofNeal Stephenson‘s Reamde after readers found errors in the $16.99 eBook. One customer called for a 75 percent refund: “this level of...
May.07.2010 Lipsey's Law of True Explanations Lipsey’s Law of True Explanations: The true explanation of why you messed up can always be stated in six words or less. Some examples of true explanations: I overslept. I drank too much. I didn’t read the instructions. I didn’t know they checked. I thought you wouldn’t notice. I forgot to turn it...	Feb.17.2010 River Boners I sent out a query letter to a magazine announcing my new novel. The editor actually called all the way to Hawaii and thanked me for the best typo she'd ever seen! A couple years ago, I began taking nutritional supplements that have done wonders for my health. Even my fingernails, which normally...
Nov.05.2009 7 Common First Draft Errors Beyond Typos Please, I’m not perfect. I have a scientist’s eye. I zoom in on patterns and look for things falling outside the norm. I created this list because these are issues I address everyday in comment boxes on writing websites. I hope it helps. The examples are pulled from my book, "Genni’s Box" because I...	Aug.16.2009 Proofreaders...could they be heroes? More and more often I read books that I don't think have been really proofread very well. Nearly every book no matter the publisher (big, established. small, or independent) has typos of some sort. Whether it is missing quotation marks, commas, mis-chosen words/misspelled words, or some other...
Jul.08.2009 To Whim It May Concern During a recent visit with my sister, which always ends up meandering down memory lane, we remembered, both fondly and not so much, living together in Boston as we looked for jobs. This was (way) back when we didn’t have Internet access, and we actually looked for work in the classifieds and sent...	Mar.02.2009 The power of (the wrong) words It has become ever more apparent that sometimes no matter what we say it will be the wrong thing. Perhaps the few words we write are too few, maybe they are too much but ultimately a few little letters strung together into the most rudimentary of sentences can end in a whole lot of trouble. Many...