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Life Changes!

A few really lovely things have happened in the past couple of months that I just have to document.

1. I am now a managing editorial assistant at Simon and Schuster,

2. which means I quit the job at that small press

3. and I no longer have to freeze.

4. Also, I work in Manhattan!

5. And I get to work on some really great books.

6. And soon I’ll (hopefully) have my own apartment.

7. And I have a boyfriend.

Just to name a few.

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One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds your more experience.

Mary Norris, Confessions of a Comma Queen

#mary norris#confessions of a comma queen#publishing#editorial#editing#grammar#punctuation#writing#proofreading#book publishing#comma queen#prose goddess
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Junie B. Jones

Junie B. Jones goes up to the counter and orders a strawberries & creme frappuccino under the name Junie B. Jones. “What does the B stand for?” asks the barista. “Beatrice,” replies Junie B., “but I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B, and that’s all.” The barista just writes “Junie” on the cup and Junie B. refuses to drink it.