Christine Rowlands Writing & Editing
Making words count
‘These Are Your Kids on Books’ Poster Goes Viral - GalleyCat. Though it's great to promote reading to kids, is it too much to expect…
The consequence of living is accumulating stuff. Papers and brochures and business cards from travels or taking a class or going to a conference. Books…
Say Wha is coming to New Westminster. Check out the poster – how can you resist that?
I’m super excited to be doing a show in New West’s wonderful River Market. I’ve brought along three of Say Wha?!’s all-star readers who will be sharing two books each for this very fun and packed show. I hope you can join us. If you live outside of Vancouver I’m so glad to finally be coming to you. If you’re in Vancouver, it’s actually really easy to get to. Just hop on the Skytrain and get off on the main New Westminster stop and walk 4 minutes towards the river.
May 2, 2012
River Market
8pm
$15
| River Market 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster, BC V3M 6B9 |
Note: This is a ticketed event. Purchase your tickets online.
E-books are perfect for bibliophile germophobes. You may miss the old-book smell, random marginalia, and chance of finding somebody's old photos and grocery list embedded…
Continue reading → 1 reason to replace paper books with an e-reader
∞Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is asking its Twitter followers to tweet their New Year's resolutions, pledging what they will do this year to…
Continue reading → Because #nightmarishvisionofaworldgonetohell would be too long of a hashtag
∞... and not about nobly starving for their art, either. We've all seen or read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In this classic tale, the…
Hey, is that a ginormous baby bump occupying the amazing man cave? It's not the new normal, it's a multiple pileup of aurally offensive terms…
Continue reading → Amazing! It’s the 2012 Banished Words List
First they took us all to task for our font snobbery. Now they're telling punctuation bar jokes. Whenever I visit McSweeney's, I remember why I…
Continue reading → Madly crushing on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Just in time for the non-denominational gift giving season, the Associated Press has published a style guide for common holiday terms. For example, Santa Claus,…
Continue reading → Associated Press gives the gift of correctness for the holidays
When you shave off the first syllable of moustache, it becomes stache, not stash, okay? If you ask me to look at your "stash" I'm…
Check out my new article on Occupying Christmas by shopping and celebrating locally on New West blog Tenth to the Fraser! As the Christmas shopping…
Continue reading → Shopping locally this Christmas is a gift to the Royal City
When even bike magazines can't get the difference between peddle and pedal right, you know it's time for another super-useful and majestically executed MS Paint…
Continue reading → Usage cartoon No. 3: Do you peddle or pedal a bike?
Today I couldn't find the bus pass. I had it last night when I got on the bus home, but this morning it was in…
It's certainly been awhile since I last blogged here. I could tell you it's because I was writing copy all day for FortisBC all summer,…
Continue reading → Confessions of an e-reader convert and lapsed blogger
Anatomy of a Fake Quotation - Megan McArdle - National - The Atlantic. All it took was one misunderstanding and the deletion of a couple…
Continue reading → Misquoted Facebook status becomes misattributed quote in mere keystrokes
The second edition of the usage cartoons has been inspired by the fascinatingly endless coverage of the upcoming Royal Wedding. (Which admittedly, I plan to…
Lately I've become disillusioned with the whole social media thing. Though I've never understood Twitter, I've always liked Facebook as an easy way to "keep…
Bunny plots revenge on petting zoo, a photo by maikopunk on Flickr.May all your words be golden and your bunnies be chocolate.
Computers are dumb. You're smart. And in the frenzy of writing, it's easy to make dumb human errors. So before hitting send, publish, or print,…
Continue reading → 3 good reasons to edit your work with human eyes
