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A Baker's Dozen

  1. Correct spelling is esential.
  2. Avoid clichés like the plague.
  3. Eschew ostentatious erudition.
  4. Don’t use no double negatives.
  5. When you find sentence fragments.
  6. When dangling, watch your participles.
  7. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
  8. Pronouns should agree with its antecedent.
  9. Don’t use, commas, which aren’t necessary.
  10. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
  11. Its important to use your apostrophe’s correctly.
  12. Proofread your writing to see if you any words out.
  13. Don’t write run-on sentences they are hard to read.

FREE
Writing lessons

Steps of the
Writing Process:
Work smarter,
not harder
Understanding
the Lard Ratio:
The secret to
low-fat writing
Three-Part
Visual Analysis:
Practice
Prof. Erwin Panofsky's
analytical techniques:
understand
how art achieves its aesthetic effects &
read
the visual subtext of images ranging from
Old Masters
to ads & billboard

Rosalie Stafford is founding publisher of Web Mystery Magazine and a member of Sisters in Crime.

She is author of two Large Print Flora & Shamus Mystery novels: Thursday's Child & The Queen of Swords (theme: obsessive pride) and Friday's Child & The Five Diamonds (theme: obsessive greed). Her current work-in-progress, the Large Print Flora & Shamus Mystery novel Saturday's Child & The Sad King of Clubs, explores the theme of illusion & deception.

Low-vision herself, she is dedicated to crafting excellent mystery novels and publishing them in the Large Print format.

Rosalie Stafford holds a Lifetime Credential (California) to teach English at the college level; she teaches research writing, visual analysis, and humanities.

write to: editor at lifeloom.com or rosalie_stafford@yahoo.com

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Rosalie Stafford,MA,
holds degrees in
art history,
literature, &
in folklore.

Her pastimes include
playing bridge,
oil painting,
jewelry design,
web design,
& weaving.

Rosalie Stafford is the author of the Flora & Shamus Large Print mystery series: comic mystery novels grounded in the Golden Age tradition of mystery-writing, employing old-fashioned well-constructed plotting as seen in the work of mystery masters Ngaio Marsh and H. R. F.Keating.

Who killed Kyra? Plenty of people wanted the blackmailing call girl out of the way. Does a telephone psychic really know whodunnit - and is that really safe? After all, the second murder is easier than the first. And the third is easier yet.

Thursday's Child &
The Queen of Swords:
A Flora & Shamus
Large Print Mystery

Historic Brick Row, South Bay's elegant block of Victorian mansions, is not yet entirely gentrified ... and millionaire Marva Jankowsky is not happy with the slow pace of the process. The redheaded real-estate developer snaps up every property on the tree-lined block as soon as aged owners pass away. Lately, fatal accidents have been carrying away elderly owners of Brick Row homes at a statistically improbable rate. Accidents?

Friday's Child &
The Five Diamonds:
A Flora & Shamus
Large Print Mystery

Friday's Child is set on historic Brick Row, South Bay's elegant block of Victorian mansions

Thursday's Child &
The Queen of Swords
and
Friday 's Child &
The Five Diamonds
are available
through
Amazon,
Booklocker,
Barnes & Noble,
and neighborhood bookstores.

 

Flora & Shamus Mysteries
are published
only in
Large Print

   
     
     
 
 
         
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