When I write “pissed”…

I mean “pissed off,” that is, “annoyed.” Imagine my surprise to read that my British copy editor assumed that my character was “tipsy.”Two people, separated by a common language! (Still working through Shades of Grey copy...

Translating into English

I’ve just gotten the cover copy for Shades of Grey from my editor and I am having a bit of culture shock. Not only does my British publisher Severn House hyphenate room-mate and sub-letter, but it has my heroine “in the frame for murder.”It all...