When I set up this blog, I thought I would write about issues of grammar, usage, and punctuation, and started to draft posts on those subjects. But as I did, I realized that there are plenty of places online for you to get that, and I lost interest. What I've never lost interest in is all the things (and language issues are among them) that go into making books. So the focus of this blog is hereby broadened to include all things of interest to me as a managing editor at a nonfiction book publisher. Some will be big-picture, future-of-publishing things. Some will be nitty-gritty, how-books-get-made things. Some will be about how to use a comma. That's why God gave us tags. You can find the ones that interest you and ignore the ones that don't.
You should be forewarned that many of my posts will be long. I am by nature an essayist, so if you're looking for the internet equivalent of sound bites, you're in the wrong place. If you want thoughtful discussion of what and why, stick around--and join the conversation. Please do so thoughtfully--if you can't back up your opinions with thoughtful argument and in a civil tone, you'll get the boot. You don't have to agree with me (not much of a discussion if everyone agrees), but you must behave yourself. My house, my rules.
The Grammopticon welcomes you.
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