A. A style book is a collection of information that sets out how a variety of language choices should be made in this realm.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
--Please send manuscripts to WhortleberryPress@Yahoo.com.
--PLEASE PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT.
--Please indicate for which antho you wish to have your manuscript considered, in the subject line.
--Please do NOT double space. Single spacing is quite satisfactory.
WORDS
-- All right is ALWAYS TWO WORDS. Never one word as in "alright." No matter that Pete Townsend has sold a zillion records of "The Kids Are Alright." Here, they are ALL RIGHT. Always.
QUOTATION MARKS
Quotation marks ALWAYS go outside the punctuation. As in, "I told him." NEVER "I told him". As in never, never, never. Always outside.
NUMERALS
-- We spell out one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. Everything after that is numerals.
-- When referencing time, say 3:00 p.m. (or a.m., as the case may be.) Or 3:20, etc. Do not
spell out numerals.(As in three o'clock -- please don't do it that way.)
THOSE THREE X'S FOUND AT THE END OF WHORTLEBERRY STORIES
--This is a holdover, and a handy one, IMO, from my newspaper days. That was where I learned to indicate the end of a story with this mark "x-x-x." Some people write
"30" at the end of their story, but that is because they don't know that x-x-x means "30"
in Roman numerals.