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Is There an Emoji for That?

When texting and emojis were a new thing, I remember thinking to myself from an editor’s perspective, “Wow, social media’s going to be even MORE painful to read!” Plenty of people already struggled with spelling and grammar, and there seemed to be a growing aversion to writing in complete sentences. Now we were going to shorten things even more and turn them into pictures? What was happening to language?? My eyes started to twitch from the imagined horror.

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The Funny Thing Is…

Now that my new romcom, Running with Hounds…and an English Degree has officially launched, I’ve been asked some questions about my writing style and sense of humor. So here are my answers. 😊

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