If you’re outside MN, you’re probably seeing a tenth of what’s happening here under ICE. I’m joining with other book-ish folks this week to donate to Community Aid Network Minnesota (CANMN). They distribute food/diapers to families who need them. Please join us in supporting our neighbors.

Thou shalt make thy lore internally consistent or thy copyeditor will become cranky.

Context aside (and it’s great context) I want this on a shirt to wear to editorial meetings

Love being humbled daily by my inability to alphabetize a glossary correctly on the first edit. I need to be supervised by a competent first-grader at all times.

The next person to move a manuscript due date this month must go into the field and hunt down their own freelancer lioness-stalking-antelope style.

So, authors, if your manuscript includes graphic descriptions of SA, you GOTTA tell your editor ahead of time. My least favorite surprise, y’all.

Your daily reminder that M-W has “boy toy” and “witch-hunter” but not “stovetop.”