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WC iUniverse Special Event
Grammar Expert
PAMELA RICE HAHN
Held: Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Kelly Milner Halls: Welcome everyone to tonight’s chat with grammar guru Pamela Rice Hahn. We’re so glad to see such a great turn out. Late last year, Pamela saw the release of her fabulous trade paperback Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours. iUniverse was thrilled to schedule Hahn for a live expert chat, but she was unable to attend. Tonight, she takes us up on our rain-check to chat abour grammar for writers of every kind. Welcome Pam, we’re really glad to have you. Tell us a little about what inspired you to write the book.
Pamela Rice Hahn: Thank you. I was asked by Macmillan to do the book (via my agent) and they offered an advance. Money is a nice motivator. It was one of those fluke things, actually. The original author (a college professor) decided his schedule was such that he had to back out. So they asked me and I then wrote a sample table of contents and a proposal that convinced the editors I was up to the task. Loved writing that book — especially the example sentences!
Candy: Pam, what is your proofreading technique? I mean what steps do you take to prep the book before submitting it for publication?
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by Pamela Rice Hahn
Introduction:
I imagine this is the first book you’ve read that’s written by somebody who’s inside of a computer, instead of just seated at one typing in his story. In fact, now might be a good time for you to boot up that CD that came with this book. You’ll need it later in the journey anyhow, and for now it’ll give you a chance to see what I look like and allow me to officially introduce myself.
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by Janelle Meraz Hooper
When our children were young, I had a friend who told me that it was time for her five-year old son to go to school — she had taught him everything she could.
I looked at it this way: the teachers could teach my daughter all of that 3-R stuff — I was never good at it anyway. I could teach her about fine literature, art, the history of oriental carpets — and how to make tiny guest soaps from little plastic muffin pans and a microwave.
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by Ed Williams
Kids these days really have it made. I know this gets said a lot, but it’s the truth. They have it made, and then some.
I walked in on my two grocery killers yesterday afternoon, and they were talking about how they might spend the evening. Their conversation went something like this:
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by Dave Maez
I don’t watch the news; it’s boring and takes up too much of my precious time. I don’t read the paper; it takes way too much time and has too much useless crap in it. So how do I stay in touch with the world? I listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered on NPR. It’s always top-notch reporting and relevant news. Every morning on my way to work, and every afternoon on my way home (to the bar) … I listen to my NPR.
I used to, anyway … before they went on strike. Except they have a special name for their strike: It’s called a “Spring Fund Raiser.”
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Posted on March 30, 2002.
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by John Fern
“We don’t need a pool table!” my wife told me, after I’d mentioned that there was a good deal on a slate-bed, eight-footer in the classified ads.
“I know! I was just making an observation while reading the newspaper. If I saw a Mercedes Benz in here for a hundred bucks, don’t ya think I’d mention it? It doesn’t mean I’m gonna run out and buy it!” I assured her.
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Posted on March 29, 2002.
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Posted on March 28, 2002.
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The original The Blue Rose Bouquet “editorial” blue rose:
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Posted on March 25, 2002.
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by Gerald Bosacker
School vacation was already one week old, and nothing exciting had happened. My new Buck Rogers rocket watch said it was at least nine o’clock, and my cousin Billy was still slopping down breakfast. I made tons of noise while waiting outside on the back steps hoping that would speed him up. Already too late to go fishing, but we probably would try anyway. We hadn’t caught anything but bullheads so far, and they were the only fish I couldn’t eat, even if I had both caught and cleaned the ugly mud puppies. Billy would and did, though. He would eat anything yet he was as skinny as I and almost as tall. Except for Eunice and Mirabelle, I was the tallest kid in sixth grade in Le Center, Minnesota.
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Posted on March 24, 2002.
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by Darren Lomas
TRANSYLVANIA (Lomaswire): A report out today from the Transylvanian Tourist Board suggests that tales of blood-sucking vampires and other ghouls have been vastly exaggerated over the years. The world’s media has been all too eager to demonize one nation, paying more attention to gossip and rumor than to fact. The xenophobia shown towards these people throughout history has been unremitting, but never worse than over the past few centuries. Once and for all, it is time we re-evaluated our views, our prejudices, concerning Transylvania.
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