Around the Blogs

I’ve been meaning to note the arrival of a couple of new bloggers, both ACES members. Kathy Schenck has been offering Words to the Wise for a couple of months. She was Johnny on the spot, noting National Dictionary Day on Tuesday, which, I admit, had escaped my attention, and she makes note of the word of the day feature at her paper, The Journal Sentinel.

And Mark Murphy, copy editor and published author, has just started Murphy’s Craw, which promises “Some whimsical wanderings through the worlds of words, writing, and old movies and TV -- along with selected short subjects.”

Also, Language Hat uncovers some good postings and sites, finding Free Rice, which provides a vocabulary quiz and donates rice, and a good posting about spelling, at OUP.

Copy Editors and Crime

Copy editors such as Mark Murphy not only write crime novels, they run blogs about them.

Peter Rozovsky finds an interesting angle, examining international crime stories at Detectives Without Borders.

Copy Editor/Crime Sleuth

The Sunday New York Times will review a book that features a copy editor as a crime sleuth. A couple of choice lines from the review:

...It’s hard not to love a book in which grammar features as a clue to the identity of a killer.
...O’Connor’s adult protagonist, Rannie Bookman, also uses big words. She’s a freelance copy editor. She does not wear a tiara.

And, lest we forget: long-time ACES member Mark Murphy writes fiction with copy editor heroes; here and here.

Mark has had his mystery fiction published in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and on Mysterical-E.