When you want to sit down with the characters in the book then you know the author has done an excellent job. . more

First time novel for Karen Witemeyer has earned a permanent space on my keeper shelf and a guaranteed to-buy list selection for future titles such as Head in the Clouds. The Bethany House cover artists out did themselves on these covers and the story within in skilled to match right on par. I was pleased and tickled to giggles by the humor and personality within the characters in the pages of A Tailor-Made Bride. I am so glad to have discovered Karen’s writing and cannot wait patiently enough fo First time novel for Karen Witemeyer has earned a permanent space on my keeper shelf and a guaranteed to-buy list selection for future titles such as Head in the Clouds. The Bethany House cover artists out did themselves on these covers and the story within in skilled to match right on par. I was pleased and tickled to giggles by the humor and personality within the characters in the pages of A Tailor-Made Bride. I am so glad to have discovered Karen’s writing and cannot wait patiently enough for more books to come. In all of the books that I read I have a little less than a handful of favorite authors and Karen has just added herself to that list. With a similar whit and seriousness of issues and drama as Mary Connealy and Vickie McDonough I cannot elaborate enough how much I enjoyed the page by page turn of events in the lives of the people within these pages.

All that I think about when i finished reading this book, that this is a calm read. If you need something to escape the turbulence of most romance novel, then you should read this one.

A sweet story about a dressmaker and a liveryman. Hannah Richards got a chance to realiaze her dream of opening her own shop when a patron of hers deeded the shop to her. So she arrived in Coventry, Texas with the hope to be a successful dressmaker. Jericho “J.T.” Tucker tried to resist his growing attraction for t All that I think about when i finished reading this book, that this is a calm read. If you need something to escape the turbulence of most romance novel, then you should read this one.

I am very thankful, but it in no way influenced my review

A sweet story about a dressmaker and a liveryman. Hannah Richards got a chance to realiaze her dream of opening her own shop when a patron of hers deeded the shop to her. So she arrived in Coventry, Texas with the hope to be a successful dressmaker. Jericho “J.T.” Tucker tried to resist his growing attraction for the beautiful dressmaker. But, since his mother left her husband and two small children to be a rich old man mistress just so she could satisfy her needs for pretty things, he resented women who he thought would be the same as his own mother especially the beautiful woman who make the pretty and elegant dress just like what her mother would like. But then, the more he knew Hannah, the more he realized that not all women were like his mother.

Setting in 1880’s Texas, vehicle title loans in OR the story was full of good people (reminded me of The House on the Prairie tv series back when I was small. Still haven’t read the book series yet) . Even the one who supposed to be “the villain” was not a bad man.

For apostrophes, I still use the rule handed down to me by my 7th-grade English teacher. No. 2 actually contradicts the AP Style Guide, but it’s far simpler:

1. Contractions: Apostrophe replaces the missing letter or letters. 2. Possessives: If a word ends in “s”, the apostrophe goes at the end of the word, whether or not it’s singular or plural (“the boys’ baseball bat,” “my boss’ desk.”) If it doesn’t end in “s”, then put an apostrophe followed by an “s”. However, possessive pronouns (its, his, hers, ours and yours) do not take an apostrophe.

That’s it. Don’t use it for plurals (although I make an exception to this rule for one-letter plurals – “She got all A’s on her report card,” “mind your p’s and q’s – since it would otherwise look like “As” or “ps”). But I agree that people are generally better off using fewer apostrophe’s – err, apostrophes. ??

Another one you could add to this last that always drives me crazy is using ‘your’ vs

My writing is laced with grammatical errors. I’m working on that though! I’ve never taken any sort of journalism or writing class beyond entry level college English. My writing itself is OK enough to get by on but I tend to use run on sentences far too often.

In a list like this I’d include the common misuse of adjectives in place of adverbs, as in “he played good”, “eat healthy”, “think different”. It’s very common in the US, though less so in the rest of the English speaking world.

Don’t forget “He did this as best as he could”. What was he doing? Was he running as fastest as he could?

Thank you for this

Could you also note that definitely is never spelled with an “a” and that a point can be moot but never mute?

Also, I noticed the character rendering issue mentioned above and thought I might be able to help. You should easily have been able to avoid this issue by shutting off curly quotes and other non-ASCII characters in MSWord or whatever program you use to write this. That’s the usual culprit there – hope that info helps. If it doesn’t – well, then refinance title loan Rhode Island, it’s not so easy is it?

Gretchen, I thought the non-WYSIWYG WordPress editor compensated for curly quotes and other non-ASCII characters transferred from MS Word, but I just tested it and it does not. Good catch.

‘you’re’. That one has driven me crazy since high school and I still see people doing it wrong all the time.

Brian – thanks for the great post. I agree that posting on the internet is a more casual form of communication, but that doesn’t mean it is o.k. to do things wrongly.

Here one that drives me nuts – the use of its and it’s. That one’s a bugger to keep straight.

Dan and Jeff, I covered both of those in my last post on grammatical errors, which I link to in the second paragraph of this post. Yes, those two upset a lot of people!

Wonderful! I’ve never known the difference between e.g. and i.e. until now (never taken the time to look them up). I also seem to write e.x. a lot when I’m talking about examples, which I realize now makes no sense.