by Maeve Maddox | Apr 28, 2017 | English Usage
If you’ve ever participated enthusiastically in an online discussion on a topic of interest, only to have it go off the rails because someone wrote “could care less,” or used the word literally in a figurative sense, my new book is for you. Word...
by Maeve Maddox | Apr 24, 2017 | Popular Culture
My reformatted and revised collection of essays about the writing craft—So You Want to Write!—is available on Amazon for $6.99 in paperback. It’s not exactly a new edition, but I was able to catch a few typos and improve a sentence here and there. As the old...
by Maeve Maddox | Apr 21, 2017 | Words
Jeopardy clues are written by a team of nine writers. One of their goals is to ensure there’s only one possible response: “A member of [the] team first double-sources each fact with reputable sources – usually an encyclopedia, dictionary or other...