CWO Mail Bag
Do I Put One Or Two Spaces Between Sentences?
One CWO reader asks: Back in school, they taught us to put two spaces between sentences. Now my editor is telling me that’s wrong. Who’s right?
Can I Use A Title That Has Already Been Published?
One CWO readers asks: I’ve just self-published my sci fi novel, the second in my series, but then I found out there are a dozen other books with my same title! Why didn’t I think of this before? What should I do?
When Do I Use Into or In To?
One CWO reader asks: How does one know when to use into or in to?
When Do You Capitalize Names?
One CWO readers asks: My editor and I keep disagreeing over proper names. In my memoir, I keep trying to make “Dad” capitalized, but half the time the editor tells me I’m wrong. Isn’t Dad always a proper noun?
What’s The Difference Between Past and Passed?
One CWO reader asks: What’s the difference between past and passed? I think the book I just started used the wrong one and I can’t move on. What do you think?
Katie O’Sullivan lives on Cape Cod, drinking way too much coffee and inventing new excuses not to dust.
Living next to the Atlantic influences everything she writes, from her YA series about mermaids to her contemporary romances for The Wild Rose Press.
A recovering English major, she earned her degree at Colgate University and now writes romance and adventure for young adults, and something steamier for the young at heart.