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October 24, 2017
Dead Demand Answers
Welcome to Tuesday Blog Share. Today, we’re delving into the paranormal, as we will all month. Our story this fine October day is all about espionage, ghosts marching for answers, and a bit of romance. A United States Air Force base is the setting for this paranormal romance/thriller, where a group of dead pilots want to know why their state of the art jets crashed when they were allegedly in perfect shape.
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Flying in the blue skies, handling an aircraft that can turn with the touch of a finger, the excitement of being part of a program that’s brand new all dims for the pilots of this unit once the jets begin failing them. A group of determined individuals seek answers when there don’t seem to be any.
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Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force… except a series of inexplicable incidents with the F-16 fighter jets assigned to Luke AFB in 1988.
Staff Sergeant Kayla Watkins believes she’s found the answer to the incidents that have taken the lives of two dozen hot pilots. Nightly, she watches the march of those dead pilots, once again promising to find answers.
Technical Sergeant Trent Montrose gets the surprise of his life after the last crash, the morning of a planned inspection from higher headquarters. Ghost Flight marches past to him on their way to the flightline.
Office of Special Investigations undercover operative, Captain Jake Arnold, loathes his operation within the 58TTW with a “dream team” of non-coms whose sabotage is suspected to go all the way back to the waning days of the Vietnam conflict.
Romance, suspense, a base on the edge. The Arizona desert is harsh and unforgiving, as harsh and unforgiving as an aircraft unable to perform up to standards. Kayla, Derek, and Jake become a team dedicated to stopping the saboteurs before another good pilot dies.
Excerpt
Early in 1988, the young pilot completed his pre-flight check. The weather was certainly strange this time of year. April’s days scorched the life right out of a man, while the nights cooled to the point where he had to wear a flight jacket until he boarded his aircraft.
He did all he could do from the ground and nodded at the crew chief, one TSgt. Montrose. The man looked a bit old for this job and his rank, almost as if he was ready to retire, and he moved stiffly, as if his muscles bothered him. Yet, Captain Stover didn’t comment on that. His uncle had been a veteran of Vietnam, flying F-4 Phantom in missions over a countryside where he often couldn’t tell who was friend and who was foe. Having grown up on stories of young men testing their mettle in those aircraft, he’d joined the Air Force and signed on to become a pilot in time to be assigned a seat in the coveted F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 23, 2017
Sat The New Was
Welcome to Monday Blogs, where we talk about recent trends in writing or problems that appear to be cropping up. Today’s topic is a growing trend I’ve noticed over the last year, a most frustrating trend. It has to do with “to be” verbs and their use, or in this case, non-use.
We all learned as soon as we started our first story that to be verbs were passive. We had to avoid passive tenses; they would make our book boring. Passive verbs, according to every discussion on them, are telling the reader the story, not showing.
Many new authors have taken this literally to heart and are substituting other words to stop using to be verbs. Instead of using was or were, they are inserting sat, stood, looked and the reader is confused. They don’t understand what the author is trying to convey.
Yes, to be verbs can be passive, if used incorrectly. A sentence can be telling if the author doesn’t take the time to construct it carefully. However, you can use to be verbs and still have an active sentence.
How does one do that? The author has a very important job. They must show the story in their head. That often takes many months, even years, of hard work. They need to edit said work and have others let them know what is going well and what needs improvement.
Substituting an “action” verb in place of a “to be” verb doesn’t always make the sentence active. In fact, you may have created a passive sentence by doing this. The word itself isn’t responsible for your sentence not being active, you are. If what you’ve written reads like it’s telling the reader rather than showing them the passage, you need to restructure the sentence rather than inserting another word such as sat or stood in its place. That simply doesn’t work.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 22, 2017
Moms Make Sense
Welcome to Sunday Blog Share. Today, we’re delving into the paranormal, as we will all month. Our story this fine October day is all listening to our mom. Even if she’s a ghost long gone from your life. The advice we get from our mothers will always assist us in the decisions we must make.
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Lorelei lost her mom to cancer only a year before. She goes to the grave and talks to Mom a lot, often asking for but not always following her advice. Until Lorelei discovers her boyfriend isn’t as good as she thought…
Lorelei loses what’s left of her family close to graduation, but she still has Mama to lean on, or rather she has Mama’s ghost. At first, Lorelei ignores the opinion about her boyfriend, Chase, but then she figures out he is acting strangely and has a new tattoo covering a scar he never had before.
Chase, however, isn’t one to give up on a girl. He dumps them not the other way around, until Mama’s ghost gives Lorelei the strength shut him out of her life.
“Never let a boy take advantage of you, baby girl. That’s one of the most important things I wanted to tell you afore this disease took me, but I never had a chance.”
A tall, slender seventeen-year-old girl stands under the shady branches of a majestic oak tree. Lorelei Perrijames crouches down in front of a tombstone. With a finger, she traces the name on the cold, unyielding granite: Bethany Elizabeth Perrijames.
“I still miss you so much, Mama, even though you’ve been gone a year.” Lorelei sniffles. “I miss your hugs. Your silly jokes, like the day you told me my dress was caught in my underwear.” Even if I totally freaked, but that was part of the fun. “Mostly, I miss all the things you taught me.”
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 18, 2017
Temptation Looms
Welcome to wwwblogs. Today’s discussion will be about maintaining our story focus. Far too many authors yield to the temptation of going off track and end up lost in the middle of their story. Of course, none of us will admit this. We’re always focused. Nothing can disrupt the flow.
Uh, let’s step back. The flow can be disrupted. Focus can be lost easily. It really doesn’t take much, just a distraction that blows your concentration and you’re suddenly staring at the screen, wondering what you meant to write next.
We are authors first and foremost in our lives. The story is the most important thing to us. If we’re not editing a completed book to submit to a publisher, or publish ourselves, we’re working on a new tale. Oftentimes, we can get mixed up if we’re working on too many projects at once. That’s why we need to learn to stay focused on the story.
How does one remain focused? There are many methods we can use but the best is to have a writing area away from distractions. Some authors have to wait until the kids are asleep and the spouse/significant other is otherwise occupied. Others must learn to ignore external distractions of chores or meal preparation in order to accomplish a decent amount of new work each day.
One thing we must do every single day is write. It’s too easy to get in the habit of letting the story alone for weeks or months on end. You have friends who want your attention. The house needs cleaning. There’s a trip you’ve wanted to take for years. Groceries must be bought. Those daily disruptions can be handled with a bit of judicious scheduling. If you work best first thing in the morning, ensure that no one can break your concentration however you have to do it. Grocery shop mid-afternoon, when the stores are nearly empty, so you can get back home and dive into your book. If nighttime is your best writing time, do everything you’d normally do at that time during the day. Ensure the children and spouse/significant other are happily occupied and then lock yourself away from them to indulge in your guilty pleasure of create havoc for your characters.
Whatever you do, never give up.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 17, 2017
Overcoming A Demon
Welcome to Tuesday Blog Share. Today, we’re delving into the paranormal, as we will all month. Our story this fine October day is all about a demon searching for love, or is it domination, and the human teen who won’t allow him to ruin her life.
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Teen romance is rife with all sorts of problems. To most adults they don’t sound very bad but to teenagers they are the end of the world, especially when it comes to romance. Drop a determined demon into the mix, Eros’ cousin even, and you soon have a recipe for disaster. But disaster for whom?
Blurb
Jack has plans for his girl on Valentine’s Day. Lea hides a horrible secret from everyone in her new hometown. Not to be outsmarted, Valentino comes between the teens. Can Jack and Lea stop the demon before midnight of Valentine’s Day?
Excerpt
He presses harder on the accelerator, his foot twitching inside his sneaker. His is an easy life, one he’s taken for granted for years, but now … now … things are so different. Jack Byers lives only for Lea Wright.
Jack comes from the richest family in Landry. They live on a hill, overlooking the valley where most of the town barely exists since the recession began, yet he’s never really been as bad as the rest of his family. Sure, he has movie star good looks, with his shoulder brushing mink brown hair, green eyes that tend to sparkle with repressed laughter, and a build that put him on the football team long before he entered school.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 16, 2017
Properly Review a Book
Book reviews are important to authors, especially if they are posted to Amazon. If you get fifty or more reviews, your book is given more visibility. It will show up in the “if you like this book, check out these books” area. Your book will appear in those many emails sent out by Amazon for people to try based on their reading preferences. In other words, getting reviews, especially good reviews, on Amazon is a ticket to what amounts to free advertising.
That’s why when an author receives a less than stellar review on their book and it’s not for the content or having seen multiple grammar/proofreading errors, they are concerned. Far too many authors have come to me recently and asked, “Why are reviewers saying my book isn’t formatted properly?” “Why are they saying the cover art is all wrong and that I need to change it?”
Authors actively seek reviewers for their books but lately have found the book blogging community reluctant to post reviews on Amazon. That’s because of a new policy about the reviewer having to be verified as a purchaser. Or they may review if they received a copy of your book for an honest review, but the wording must be exact at the end of the review: “A copy of this book was provided for an honest review.”
For years, I’ve told my authors to seek out the blogger/reviewer community. They have always been open to books from indie/self-published authors or small publishers. Their presence has aided many an author not affiliated with the Big 5 in getting the reviews necessary to attract attention.
In recent months, an ugly specter has arisen. A small, almost miniscule, group of blogger reviewers who are acting more like a teacher in a classroom and are marking down books for reasons that were once forbidden territory for a reviewer.
I’ve been in this game as an author for a long time. During this time, I spent a few months with the blogger/reviewer community. One thing that was stressed was that we reviewed a book on its content, on the story itself. We weren’t to comment on formatting or cover art, as they weren’t part of the story. Yet, recently, it appears reviewers have switched tactics and are doing this.
A book review is meant to convey to potential readers what is contained within the covers of the book without giving away important plot points, also known as spoilers. A reviewer should give a short overall impression of the book and then talk about their experience… Was it good? Did they enjoy the book? What did they find wrong with it?
There are things a reviewer shouldn’t do when giving their review. One of these things is to say the cover art isn’t right and the author needs to change it so the reader gets a better sense of what the book is about. Cover art is a very personal thing. Authors often spend a great deal of money having that made, or if they are with a publisher, that company works hard to produce cover art that reflects the content of the book. Nowhere in this area is a reviewer involved. It’s not their job to say they hate the cover art and it should immediately be changed to this.
Formatting, especially with a publishing company, is set. The publisher has a certain format they use. They are not going to change their formatting to meet the desires of each reviewer who doesn’t like it. To knock down an overall rating of a book because you don’t like the formatting feels very petty.
All an author is looking for in a review is an opinion of the story. To create panic by bashing their carefully selected cover art or formatting is petty, something I never thought I’d see in the dedicated blogger/reviewer community. Oh, I’m not saying all blogger/reviewers do this. In fact, it’s a very small number of these individuals who have taken on this tactic. Most of these blogger/reviewers are dedicated individuals who work without pay to let the reading public know about books from indie authors or small publishing companies. Those people I salute and say continue your excellent job.
All I’m asking is those people who feel it’s their place to pepper a review with put downs about cover art and formatting take a step back and think about the damage they’re doing to the author. In most instances, the changes these individuals are seeking won’t happen, especially if the author is with a small publisher. And your review indicating that the cover art and formatting are all wrong has now put a stigma on their book.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 15, 2017
Standing Up For Your Beliefs
Welcome to Sunday Blog Share. Today, we’re delving into the paranormal, as we will all month. Our story this fine October day is all about three teens from three different times fighting against powerful evil. Each must make a decision on their own whether or not they will accept Bewitcher Random A. Ransom’s offers of everything they’ve ever wanted or if they will remain firm to their beliefs.
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This story has a new beginning, where plots and schemes among Bewitchers are overheard by a trio of men who have dedicated their lives to stopping these demons. Their interference isn’t to go after these creatures actively but to assist those chosen many centuries earlier to stand against evil. Three teens have been chosen this time, from three different times. Can Tuck, Sue Anne, and Earl Lee stop Random A. Ransom from completing his nefarious plan to take over humanity?
Faced with the loss of his immortality, Bewitcher Random A. Ransom has to defeat Mary Barron’s young assistants: Tuck Barrons, Earl Lee Farley, and Sue Anne Edwards. Confidant he can beat three kids, Random has no idea that the Johnson triplets have invaded the ranks of his brethren. These brothers have pledged their souls to Archangel Michael to rid the world of evil. What the Bewitcher thought would be easy isn’t so easy after all.
The woman glanced from side to side. All around her the bodies of those she’d promised to protect lay in the slumber of death. This plague had ripped through her community, through the interlinked eight families. There were only three survivors from each family, children all, and they were doomed to the same fate as the others, unless she obeyed the demon’s demand.
“I cannot do this. ‘Tis evil. ‘Tis wrong. There is only one way to thwart the demon and protect our future.”
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 11, 2017
Publicists
Welcome to wwwblogs and our discussion today. This one came from another author who asked me if hiring a book publicist was worth the money. My one and only experience in that area left a very bad impression and I’m afraid I was rather abrupt in my response.
First, let’s take a look at my experience with a book publicist.
~ The individual concerned was an author (a single story published in a little known anthology). She edited for an online publishing company that closed its doors in less than a year. To be honest, I should have questioned her credentials as an editor, since I did most of the editing myself while she marked exactly one paragraph to be rewritten in a 193 page book and added a couple of that’s. But I was still very green and hadn’t had much experience with book editors up to that point. Live and learn. Once that publisher closed, she came to me a month later, with a proposition to be my publicist. I’d recently taken a writing related day job and was a bit overwhelmed with getting my social media promoting done while also planning book release promotions. Sure sounded like a good deal to me. Her price was $140 a month. It seemed a little steep, especially since it was a little over half of what I was making, but I again pushed off my concerns and went ahead. Five months, two book releases with minimal results and her reviewing my second book, where an individual used parts of her review to slam the book, and I was steaming. Her daily promotional efforts of a couple of tweets had faded to maybe once a week. Month five comes along and there’s only one tweet and she’s impossible to contact—no response whatsoever to PMs on Facebook, DMs on Twitter, or emails. At this point, I’m diving into scheduling appearances, desperately working to regain the social media presence I had when I hired her, and figuring out how to tell her that I would not approve her PayPal invoice the next month, because I was firing her. She finally responded to one of my many messages, saying she understood and could I pay her for just one more month, as she needed the money. My response was curt and immediate—she’d done nothing to improve my social media standing, had in fact caused it to fall so much I despaired of ever regaining what I once had, and I’d already told PayPal that her invoice was not to be forwarded to me, as I’d ended my working relationship with her. Her response was to tag me in very ugly posts and I learned the hard way to do some very deep research into a person’s background before I consented to them having that type of job with me again. That was nearly four years ago. I do my own promotion now and am still very much against hiring a publicist.
However, I was asked a question and decided to do a bit of research on the subject. Turns out there are some very good publicists available for the author, although it’ll take some time to earn enough to hire them. That’s time I’m willing to wait, because if I’m ever in a position to need a publicist again, I will look for one with great credentials.
First of all, turns out that $140 I was paying a month was nowhere close to what a true publicist is paid. In fact, it’s far too low to consider the person experienced. Remember this lesson well—if you want experience, you have to pay a premium price.
What does an experienced publicist make? On the high end, they can run from $1500 to $5000 a month, for a three to nine month term. On the low end, they will run about $50 an hour.
What should you expect from your publicist?
Before I answer that, I would like to shout out to Literary Publicist Stephanie Barko. It’s thanks to her very informative blog that I have this information. With this data in mind, you can ask sensible questions of a prospective publicist and know if they can help you get your book noticed.
Here is what Ms. Barko says a literary publicist should do:
~ Devise and execute a book platform.
~ Acquire endorsements.
~ Overseee editing of the book’s back cover text.
~ Edit author’s bio and the book’s synopsis.
~ Create a strategy for the author’s book blog.
~ Initialize the author’s social media networking platforms.
~ Request book reviews.
~ Assemble a media kit and disseminate its elements.
~ Pitch interviews and features.
~ Plan book launch event and book talk.
~ Schedule, host, and promote the book’s virtual tour.
~ Encourage nomination of the title for book awards.
~ Position the title for addition to book lists.
~ Formulate the author’s talking points.
~ Syndicate the author’s talking points.
~ Recommend venues with high traffic author reach.
~ Leverage interest of special audiences and book groups.
Once I’d read through Ms. Barko’s blog post and seen all this information, I realized I hadn’t done my homework all those years ago. I trusted someone I’d known only on social media and only for a few months with the most important part of getting my books out to the public. After going through many professional publicists’ websites, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a great asset for an author but not until you have the money to pay their rates.
As with everything else in life, be aware of those who claim to be good and have an amazingly low price. You will always get what you pay for.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 10, 2017
Discovering Hidden Secrets
Welcome to Tuesday Book Blog. As we move toward the end of the month and a new paranormal horror tale to be released, it’s time to explore another story on this theme. Secrets are often the best tales to develop into a horror story. These enigmas are often fodder for all sorts of tales about how they came about. Occasionally, real life hands us the perfect uncovered mystery and screams that it must be told.
Such is the case with The Pond. Based on real life events with a fictional twist, one area is thrust into the horror of unburied bodies hidden deep within a waterway partially on private property. This revelation leads to more questions than answers.
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Anne-Marie gets the surprise of her life, on the eve of passing over her duties as the Seer of Wallis County, Georgia. The pond where she and her friends have skinny dipped for years begins spewing out ghosts, all demanding that she bring to light the terrible events that have been hidden beneath the watery surface. What’s worse than ghosts demanding assistance just when she’s ready to shake the dust of this area off her feet? The owner of The Pond, or rather a member of his family, who happens to be the sheriff. Can Anne-Marie uncover all the secrets of The Pond, or will she be stuck in this county forever?
Excerpt
Beneath the murky depths of the pond, a great stirring was beginning. Those who had inhabited this waterway, some for more than a century, others for less than ten years, were awakening.
She is here.
Our salvation is at hand.
Call her… call her.
The great secret that had been a part of Wallis County for so long was about to be revealed. No one would escape the implications of murder most foul or hiding those who had perished either through natural means or “misadventure.” Unanswered questions of a few would soon have resolutions that would turn neighbor against neighbor and render families apart as they defended the people behind the great secret.
Find her.
She is here.
Where?
At the pond.
Why?
We must discover that.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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October 9, 2017
Watch Those Commas
The comma has become much misused by authors in the twenty-first century. It is sprinkled throughout run-on sentences and dropped hither and yon in shorter sentences. One can find the comma in many places it shouldn’t be; places where a period or semi-colon would work much better. The poor comma has no say in where it’s dropped and often protests by creating a grammar error for the author to see and possibly change to the correct usage.
First, let’s examine the usage for a comma, direct from Oxford Dictionary:
“A comma marks a slight break between different parts of a sentence. Used properly, commas make the meaning of a sentence clear by group and separating words, phrases, and clauses.
They’re often “sprinkled” throughout the written word without the user having an understanding of their purpose.”
This is very simple and extremely clear definition of the use of a comma. One should be able to read it and immediately understand how a comma should or should not be used, and yet we have individuals placing commas in places they don’t belong.
For instance, between a subject and a verb, which thereby, disrupts the sentence and creates confusion in the mind of the reader? The subject and verb must remain together. They complement each other. The reader sees who and what without having to wonder if who and what belong to two different areas of the story.
Take for example the ever popular meme: strippers, Kennedy, and Putin. As can be seen in the picture, one can derive the meaning of this phrase two ways. If the second comma is taken out, the image on the bottom is what most people visualize. With the proper use of the Oxford comma, the reader understands the message being portrayed.
Now, to use the same example with a subject and verb. The first image shows what a reader is seeing when they see this passage: Girl, falls into the water.
As with the strippers, JFK and Putin, Girl, falls into the water demonstrates how a reader perceives our misuse of a comma.
Finding out if you’ve used a comma correctly is as simple as a less than one second internet search. There are many resources that will assist you with this problem but you should depend on the tried and true sites such as CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style) or Oxford. They are generally more factual.
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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