by Laura Brooke Robson | Dec 2, 2019 | Archives
As a certified Internet User™, I’ve seen a lot of re-spellings of the word “women” recently. Wimmin, womyn, and womxn 1Womxn, in particular, aims not just to deemphasize the suffix -man but to specifically include transgender people and people of color, which wimmin...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 17, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Writing
In rewriting my book for the seventeenth time, I realized that I will go to extreme lengths to avoid certain difficult rules of grammar and syntax. I would rather rewrite the whole paragraph than choose between “It is me” and “It is I.” 9For the record, it’s “It is I”...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Sep 25, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Life, Writing
A year and a half ago, I sold my first two books to a publisher. People asked, mostly: What’s the title? Oh, awkward, we’re retitling it so I don’t know yet!What’s the cover? Oh, oops, so I won’t see the cover until closer to the release.Is it written? Yes! It’s...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 15, 2018 | Reading
My fellow 2018 grads keep asking me for book suggestions. First, *confetti*. I am delighted, comma, honored that you think I can recommend a book you’d like. Second, I am delighted, comma, heart-warmed that you are interested in reading again. You know, now that...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Oct 18, 2018 | Life, Writing
*By which I mean literature, not, like, “Suh dude, lit party.” Though in my opinion, books are also pretty lit. Hi friends! Well, we’re here. Four months after college graduation, and I’m finally doing that “life update” all my friends did in June. Oops. And what a...
