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Eileen Hawkins
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Eileen Hawkins's Discussions
What Is The First Paragraph Of Your Current Read?
Replied Mar. 28, 2008
What Is The First Paragraph Of Your Current Read?
Replied Mar. 28, 2008
What Is The First Paragraph Of Your Current Read?
Replied Mar. 28, 2008
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- Hometown:
- Born in Fort Worth, grew up in Pueblo, CO, have lived in Western Washington 18 years
- About Me:
- I am definitely overbooked. I have 25 books checked out right now, and another 30 on hold. I have been disabled for about 5 years by arthrits, fibromyalgia and depression. I have time to be overbooked. The picture is of my service dog, Friday.I am usually in front of a book or computer, or behind a camera.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- J.A. Jance, Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Mary Daheim, Tony Hillerman. James D. Doss, many, many more. Barbara Ehrenreich, Jared Diamond for non-fiction
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York, NCIS, Nova, Frontline, Bill Moyer's Journal, Nature, House. Sorry folks, I don't have cable.
Eileen Hawkins's Blog
A funny story on the Graveyard Shift blog...
Reminded me of my career as a crime fighter. Sort of. For 21 years I was married to a small-town cop. A really, really small town. Let's call it Windy Point. That's not it's name, but I was windy ,so...
This town was so small it only had 2 1/2 cops. That meant that the town was "unprotected" about 8 hours a day as the half cop worked the other two cops days off.
My ex was a scrappy little banty rooster type.Think a Hispanic looking Barney Fife. Although he wasn't Hispanic, some Native America fr… Continue
This town was so small it only had 2 1/2 cops. That meant that the town was "unprotected" about 8 hours a day as the half cop worked the other two cops days off.
My ex was a scrappy little banty rooster type.Think a Hispanic looking Barney Fife. Although he wasn't Hispanic, some Native America fr… Continue
Posted on March 29, 2008 at 2:13pm —
Don't they employ copy editors anymore?
OK, in this day and age of text messaging and l33t speak, I am probably a Luddite, but it annoys me when I read a book that looks like it was copy-edited by Spell-Check. You know the errors I mean. Do for due, to for two, now here that is supposed to be nowhere. Don't human read these manuscripts anymore? Is the book biz so marginal that they can't take some pride in their work? OK, I mostly find these types of errors in mystery fiction, and face it, these books are probably not going to be arou… Continue
Posted on March 28, 2008 at 1:52am — 2 Comments
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I'm an editor so these things jump out at me too. It's distracting. And it takes so long for a book to be published, you know they have time to thoroughly edit it.
I'm sorry to hear of your pain. I'm glad you have books to give you some comfort.
wait for it....
*RIMSHOT*
(I couldn't come up with any good puns)
P.S. thanks for the comment on my page!