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To be honest I can't remember! It's stuff I have to know because I'm an editor – if I'm going to be correcting other people's work I have to know my stuff. So it'll have come from various books, courses and editorial discussions over the years.

The UK equivalent to this is probably The Times Writers' Guide.

It's not a crush! It's true love. ;) Mine are Arutha con Doin from The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E Feist and Simon Wargallow from The Omaran Saga by Adrian Cole. There may well have been others over the years but these are the two I remember. I have a theory about this and it might be...

It was still more common to use z at the end of the 19th century. Throughout the 20th and 21st though, the s has become more prevalent. Personally, I prefer the s.

It's more correct with a z. We English only (relatively) recently adopted the s as well, mostly because the Americans were using a z. But z was first. So in this case, and I don't say this often, they're right.

Not wishing to be pedantic or anything, but technically beer-mat is two words that are hyphenated. With recent moves towards amalgamating hyphenated words into one, it would acceptable to use beermat, but would still (technically) be wrong. ;)

My first book-related post and I'm going to have to disagree with (most of) what's gone before! I hated the Silmarillion. It was barely readable. The prose was dense and impenetrable, there was no action and the book was boring. I had to force myself to read it to the end. I don't think...

Actually I generally avoid autobiographies and biographies. They're just not my thing. I'd read a couple of reviews of this though and it sounded intriguing in a scandalous, pulling-no-punches kind of a way. And it is. He's immensely smug and not especially likeable but it is a very good read.

Magazines actually. I work for a couple of tourism mags. I'm certainly a queen bee. ;)

Hello, I'm new here and thought my first post should be an intro one. I'm a journalist and aspiring author – nothing published yet, actually nothing completed yet but lots in the pipeline. I read an awful lot, pretty much anything. I'm currently reading The Insider (Piers Morgan's...