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The Black Cat monthly round-up: January 2023

I had a fairly quiet and relaxed start to the new year. It was nice to…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: December 2022

This is the fifth December round-up for Black Cat Editorial Services, which seems like an achievement…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: November 2022

November was my first month in my new home and it has taken quite a lot…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: October 2022

This round-up is a bit late, and that’s because something pretty momentous happened at the end…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: September 2022

September is the month of my birth, so I did take a few days off in…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: August 2022

What I’ve been working on I finished the memoir proofread I started in July, alongside the…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: July 2022

We had a heatwave in the UK and I was yet again grateful that I invested…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: June 2022

In my May round-up, I mentioned a zombie horror novel I’d been copy-editing. I had previously…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: May 2022

May saw the first in-person meeting of the CIEP’s West Surrey & North Hampshire local group…
Fiction essentials: vocative expressions

I touched on vocative expressions in my blog post on how to punctuate dialogue, but I…