[FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

[Frank Wimberly]

I was more careful when submitting the book.  I always used the Oxford
comma, for instance.

But thanks.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 5:06 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:09 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I hired an Amazon editor.  She said, I say boastfully, "There were
>> virtually no spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors so let's talk about
>> structural issues..."[image: Proofreading mark insert period symbol]
>>
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> Insert period before three trailing ellipsis points. How much did you pay
> your Amazon editor?   ;-p
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> MLA style places <https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html> the
> sentence-terminating period immediately after the last word of the
> quotation, even though a period does not occur there in the original
> material. The three ellipsis points are then placed after this
> sentence-terminating period.
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> eg
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> Thoreau argues that by simplifying one’s life, “the laws of the universe
> will appear less complex. . . .”
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