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CFSaller

  1. Loveliest word? I'll take "balalaika." Harriet Powney offers this and others: bit.ly/LmE0Fh
  2. Congress drops a grade level? Mark Liberman debunks the report: bit.ly/KStg27
  3. Blogging today: “When Can I See My Book Cover?” bit.ly/LBeOAR
  4. Exactly! Merrill Perlman on the optional "that": bit.ly/KHpoRh
  5. Ben Yagoda's comma compendium continues! nyti.ms/MfnXeN
  6. A sign there's room for both? RT @kid_lit: The digital pendulum swinging back toward print a bit? ow.ly/aV4Y5
  7. Blogging today: Indexing for do-it-yourselfers: bit.ly/KWuGbd
  8. Should a computer index your book? Blogging today: bit.ly/Inmi5M
  9. For lack of a better word? @robertloerzel I noticed a few years ago that a lot of people were saying "very very" instead of "very."
  10. Are we running out of superlatives? Stan Carey on word "inflation": bit.ly/IX9zp1
  11. Can you work with background music? At the blog: bit.ly/IgR43s
  12. Ben Yagoda's elegant take on the placement of "only": bit.ly/HJni1u
  13. Big books with online supplements: pros and cons. Blogging today: bit.ly/HV6qup
  14. (p.s. Eddie's War is in the Twelve to Fourteen PDF bit.ly/IkB2mE)
  15. A star for my Eddie's War! Bankstreets' Best Children's Books of 2012: bit.ly/IkB2mE
  16. Are you tempted to edit repeated words? Blogging today: bit.ly/Hu1oF3
  17. Preface, foreword, or intro? My brief tutorial: bit.ly/I5MD5H
  18. Window 7's snipping tool is my new favorite editing toy: bit.ly/HODgXT
  19. Will there be a replay?? @willcwhite ps. u can watch me & philip (& anton) in half an hr here