Yes, my first book of the heart crossed three genres and was too long, but people tell me it’s the one they love best. It wasn’t published first, but second, but it is the one I wrote before I heard all the touted “rules”. It was a hard sell, and, in fact, didn’t sell to a major publisher. Luckily a small press/e-publisher took a chance on it and on me as well.

The “you and I” indirect object mistake absolutely drives me nuts when I hear it on TV. Haven’t television writers been anywhere near a high school English class. I’m sure it was covered every year in mine.

Thank you, Rebecca, for sharing your pet peeves. They’re mine, too. Yes, I’ve heard the comma rule has been suspended for use before “too”, but I was taught to put it there.

Marie-Nicole