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Tackling That First Draft: How Editors Can Help Nervous Writers 

September 25, 2025 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter | Leave a Comment

© Ruth E. Thaler-Carter Coming up with a first draft is a challenge for almost every writer, even those with years of experience and walls full of awards. Few writers can sit down, flex those typing fingers, relax the shoulders and pour out a word-perfect manuscript on the first try. These tips for dealing with […]

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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter: An Editor’s Top 3

April 12, 2022 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter | Leave a Comment

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter has been managing and speaking about websites for several years, for both her own ventures and those of her clients. Her in-person and virtual presentations about editors’ websites have been popular with several professional […]

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Facts and Fiction: Grammar Vampires and True Crime

June 30, 2015 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter | 3 Comments on Facts and Fiction: Grammar Vampires and True Crime

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed By Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Pantheon Books, 1984, 1993.  Wild, wacky, inventive grammar guide continues to educate and amuse The opportunity to review the new edition (1993) of Karen Elizabeth Gordon’s The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar […]

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