Fall-Winter 2025
You'll see all about our Fall Harvest, pitching advice, the inside scoop from a librarian, punctilious punctuation, killer first lines. overview of 2025's meet-ups, member good news and more.
Summer 2025 Newsletter
Featuring our retreat, book festivals, librarians, grammar, killer first lines and member good news.
Kite Tales
Find out what's happening in the tri-regions: CenCal, LA and SoCal. This weekly blog covers events, member good news and more.
Spring 2025 Newsletter
Check out our Spring issue! Featuring conferences, book festivals, creating opportunities, killer first lines, Member Good News and more!
Grammar Nerd Articles - Table of Contents
Want to improve your grammar? Check out these articles by Tim Burke from previous newsletters (below).
Fall/Winter '24: The Oxford comma, when to use it, when not to (see what I did there?)
Spring ’24 Issue 11--Comma Rule 2: Intro Comma
Fall ’23 Issue 10--semicolon
Spring ’23 Issue 9--No grammar nerd column!
Spring ’22 Issue 8--odds and ends:
- Could’ve/should’ve/would’ve = could have/should have/would have
- Past tense versus past perfect
- ellipsis
- capitalization common errors
Fall ’21 Issue 7--Dialogue issues (tag in the middle of dialogue, nonspeaking verb/verbs in tags)
Spring ’21 Issue 5--Apostrophe (possession/its vs. it’s); Wrong plurals with apostrophes the Smiths/Smith’s
Fall 2020 Issue 4--
- Indent 1st line
- Inner dialogue
- Interrobang
- Idioms: on purpose/on accident
- Lie/lay
Spring ’20 Issue 3--Pronoun Twins
Summer ’19 Issue 2--Lie/Lay
Spring ’19 Issue 1--Comma Rule 1: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
- Advanced topic: end punctuation (abbreviations w period/interrobang/question marks in and out of dialogue)
Past Newsletters