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Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Karina Bliss but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. You can reach Jane by email at jane @ dearauthor dot com
Argh. The lack of punctuation was one of many things that annoyed me about The Road!
It seems like every paper and magazine has recently discovered sexy vampires.
ugh, I couldn’t even read that Journal article. What a piece of fluff. And no mention of Anne Rice? Please. Vampires have been around as a sex symbol for over a century. Hello..Dracula?
Solely using periods, or a blend of periods and dashes, doesn’t create reading elegance. With the loss of quotation marks, I find a tale becomes a low drone of nothingness.
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I once tried to read a litfic novel with no quotes (and virtually no other punctuation), and within fifteen minutes I had a headache. I couldn’t be bothered to read past page 10.
And it’s not that I don’t enjoy demanding prose. But the narrative needs to flow, and it can’t flow if I have to stop all the time and decide whether a particular sentence or word is or isn’t dialogue.
Whatever drug these authors are self-medicating with, they need to cut it out…