Too Many Hyphens

In one of my favorite movies ever, Amadeus, a king tells Mozart that his latest opera contained “too many notes.” “Just cut a few,” the monarchsaid. Of course that did not go over well with the genius composer. As writers, we often cut a few words, or even a lot of words, to the benefit of the work. But what about punctuation?

I came across a funny story, well-covered in The Guardian, about another poor decision byAmazon. The everything giant pulled an author’srecently-self-published werewolf...