Comments on: Gratitude http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/11/gratitude-2/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Sej Harman http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/11/gratitude-2/comment-page-1/#comment-35443 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:53:18 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8232#comment-35443 I loved the post (all of them, actually), yours especially although it’s already after Thanksgiving and well into the Christmas season–at least for retailers if not for most of us consumers. I thought that since you’re in the writing/literature/book business, you might want to revise the sentence below…and remove the extra apostrophe.

“An industry that’s got it’s fair number of challenges, but is still full of vibrant, intelligent, creative, exciting people.”

My apologies for noting the typo, but I cannot seem to help it; I’m a born again–and the first time, too–“grammar Nazi.” I cannot seem to read a book, for pleasure or work or study, without seeing some sort of error, usually typos but sometimes grammar (notwithstanding the author’s style), issues of fact, or incongruities from page to page or chapter to chapter. My brain hangs up on these and I sometimes cannot continue until I go back and ferret out the problem.

Of course, I also have to be very careful in my own writing and editing, because I get summarily “razzed” in return, should others find problems in my words/works. Sometimes my anxieties about possible errors cause me to take an inordinate amount of time just to write a quick note.

All this being said, I enjoyed your writings and, in reality, the whole DGLM website. It’s done well, very readable, and the agents seem very personable and approachable. I may be calling on you in the future.

Here’s to another stellar year for DGLM, wonderful colleagues, loving family, and more great books!

Sincerely yours,

(Ms) Sej Harman

]]> By: Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/11/gratitude-2/comment-page-1/#comment-35405 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:05:43 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8232#comment-35405 Lauren,

What a heartfelt post!

Thanksgiving season always has a special place in my heart, sometimes bitter-sweet, other times plain old sweet.

It was around this time 13 years ago when !Stacey Glick! saw my manuscript in “the slush pile” (she is so dear; later she told me: “I had found a gem in the slush”)

I am happy to see on Stacey’s facebook page that she and her family enjoyed Thanksgiving Day. Hope you and your loved ones did too.

I wish everyone at DGLM a safe, peaceful, wonder-ful holiday season!

Sincerely,

Teresa LeYung Ryan
author of Love Made of Heart (mother-daughter love story)
By the way, Love Made of Heart (Kensington Publishing Corp.) celebrates her 10th anniversary this year!
coach, author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days:
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