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What’s the Funniest Thing You’ve Found When You’ve Editied Your Manuscript?

Posted on December 22, 2013 | 5 comments

Manuscript bloopers. Aren’t they a gas? I sometimes look forward to that first read-through after I’ve finished a novel, just to see the funny things I accidentally typed.

What’s even better is when I completely read over them and send the novel out to beta. Boy do my beta-partners get a blast out of that!

Here’s J.K. Ford to talk about some of her bloopers.

If you write at all, you’ve had your share of manuscript bloopers, whether it’s a novel, term paper, short story or newspaper article. Manuscript bloopers come in the form of misspelled words, incorrect words in wrong places, nouns doing odd things they can’t do, misplacement of words and dangling participles. Here are five examples of manuscript bloopers from my own writings. Go ahead. Laugh. I did. After I bonked myself on the head.

Marci laughed as Jason hip-bumped around the room, signing an old Aerosmith tune.

(Really? He signed a tune? Interesting.)

David shuffled to the bathroom and let out a long yarn.

(The imagery here is too comical for me. Poor David.)

Standing at the window, Eric’s hands rested on the sill.

(Don’t you hate it when hands can’t decide to stand or rest?)

Lily laid back and sighed as her eyes following her father around the room.

(I’d do a bit more than sigh if my eyes were out of their sockets and following someone)

“Where is that blasted hat at?”

(I NEVER place participles at the end of a sentence. Ever. It’s like a huge pet peeve for me, and yet I found one!! Agghhh. To tell you the truth, I think my son snuck in and added it when I wasn’t looking just to make me cringe and turn 10 shades of red. And yes, he would do that.)

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What are some of your manuscript bloopers?

About J.K. Ford:

As a young Army brat, Reader’s Choice award winner J. (Jenny) Keller Ford, traveled the world and wandered the halls of some of Germany’s most extraordinary castles hoping to find the dragons, knights and magic that haunted her imagination. Though she never found them, she continues to keep their legends alive. Her story, The Amulet of Ormisez, is available as part of the MAKE BELIEVE anthology. Dragon Flight, is part of the One More Day anthology. When not at her keyboard breathing new life into fantasy worlds, Jenny spends time collecting seashells, bowling, swimming, riding roller coasters and reading. She works as a paralegal by day and lives on the west coast of Florida with her family, three dogs, and a pretentious orange cat who must have been a dragon in his previous life.

The Dying Manuscript (creativemysteries.net)
Sequel-Hell: About to Commit Manuscript-icide (susansheehey.com)

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Tagged Blooper, Christmas, David, Fiction, Florida, Germany, Manuscript, Reading (process)

Hunkering down for a Hurricane. AKA Go Away Sandy.

Posted on October 28, 2012 | 23 comments

Hurricane, Huh? Isn’t hurricane season over? And I don’t live in Florida. Wait a minute the eye of the storm is heading where? Straight for me? Whaaaaaaaat?

Normally, I don’t even blink about hurricanes, unless I am in the Caribbean, since I always seem to vacation during hurricane season. But now what they are calling the mother of all storms is heading right at me. I’m kind of inland, but not far enough inland to be out of the danger zone.

The storm isn’t here yet and the schools are already closed. The power company, the gas company, and the insurance company have all called with directions about what to do. Yikes.

Luckily for me, I grew up on the Jersey shore, and know how to batten down the hatches. I know that just about anything can turn into a projectile. In a family group effort today, everything that could move in the backyard became safely stowed in our garage. Our Halloween decorations are all down, and piled up in out living room (The chances of them getting back up are slim)

So now, we sit and wait. It’s already raining. At this point, there’s really not anything more we can do but see what happens.

For everyone else in Sandy’s path… keep safe, and stay inside.

For everyone outside the danger zone, prayers or positive energy is always appreciated. Hopefully, this will all just blow over. (no pun intended) 🙂

Safe wishes to you.

Hurricane Sandy in America, a ‘Frankenstorm’? (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Hurricane Sandy updates (o.canada.com)
Hurricane Sandy – The Frankenstorm Are You Ready? (lilsuburbanhomestead.wordpress.com)
Hurricane Sandy Still Holding Strong (philadelphia.cbslocal.com)
Hurricane Sandy breaks records for rainfall in NC (charlotte.news14.com)
Hurricane Sandy, Note No. 1 (johnhaydeninmd.com)
Hurricane Sandy Update (youviewedblog.wordpress.com)
Insurers Prepare for Hurricane Sandy (insurancejournal.com)
Amid dire forecast, Sandy a hurricane again – and moving north (suntimes.com)
Maryland Getting Ready to Hunker Down for Hurricane Sandy (washington.cbslocal.com)

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Posted in Senseless Ranting

Tagged batten down the hatches, Caribbean, climate, Florida, halloween decorations, Hurricane, hurricane sandy, hurricane season, Insurance, Jersey Shore, Meteorology, nature, Sandy, weather

Make Believe Anthology: The back of the cover. Yay! Another Reveal!

Posted on May 26, 2012 | 26 comments

Along with the book cover, and here ya go, in case you missed it.

Sigh… just don’t get tired of looking at my name on there…

Anyway…

Along with the book cover, we now have the back cover copy with details on all the cool stories about this little lady in red.

And no, It’s not Little Red Riding Hood. It had to be about anything BUT that fabled character. So without further ado, here is the back cover copy for “Make Believe”

Oh! It would be great if you’d click on these lovely ladies’ names and give them a shout out on their blogs. We’re all celebrating!

Back of the Book

Sacrificial Oath by Terri Rochenski

An impetuous act unwittingly makes Alesuela the fulfillment of the Sovereign’s Blood Oath to their Goddess. In five days, she’ll be forced to make the greatest choice of her life: become the virginal sacrifice already promised, or force the man she loves most to die in her place.

With an impossible choice in front of her, she searches for ways to undo the oath, and in her quest, finds not everything in her life is as she expects.

The Amulet of Ormisez by J. Keller Ford

There is only one way to save Elton Fletcher’s brother from an insanity-ridden death.

After years away from home, fighting for his people, Elton returns to discover his only sibling, Cayden, possessed by greed and malice, and responsible for malicious, unthinkable deeds. Cayden, though, isn’t the only one afflicted by the Amulet of Ormisez, and Elton finds himself in yet another battle, where the price of failure could be his own life.

Birthright by Lynda R. Young

Christa can mask the pain and hide the scars, but running from a birthright is impossible.

She’s tried to escape her grief by fleeing to a small town in Florida. Much to her frustration, the locals think they recognize her even though she’s never been there before. To make things worse, a man named Jack spouts outrageous theories about her.

Both spur Christa to bolt, to start fresh yet again, but there’s something about Jack that intrigues her enough to stay. The only problem? Someone else wants her to leave, and they won’t stop until she’s dead.

Petrified by Kelly Said

A mysterious storm has replaced summer with winter, devastating crops and smothering Castle lands in snow. Prince Sterling August stands alone as a leader, lost in personal grief as well as a desire to help his people but with an inability to do either.

The answers he needs await him, but without Lochlyn, a woman who’s just as isolated as Sterling, he’ll never see what stands before him, cloaked in illusion.

Last Winter Red by Jennifer M. Eaton

Emily is a Red, a woman whose sole purpose in life is to produce offspring. When her husband dies and leaves her childless, she risks her life and forsakes the safety of Terra—a disease-free city born after the nuclear holocaust. Beyond its boundaries, she knows, survives a man with whom she can be properly paired.

The Outside, though, holds secrets the government struggles to keep, and what Emily discovers on her quest for a mate will change her life forever.

Escort to Insanity by J.A. Belfield

From a charity auction, to a stroll in the park, to the craziest night of her life. Nicole Harrington can’t help but wonder how a simple event went so drastically wrong.

Of course, the male escort she booked is wholly to blame. Not only charming but shrewdly intelligent, Benjamin Gold drags Nicole into a platoon of unimaginable problems—ones from which she’ll have to find the courage just to survive.

URL: http://www.jtaylorpublishing.com/books/17