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Erika M. Weinert

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Erika M. Weinert is a copy and line editor who lives in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and is an active member of the Northwest Editors Guild—a regional, industry-specific association of editors. She mentors fledgling editors through the guild and on her own.

When she’s not providing remote editing services to her clients and mentoring, Erika can be found at home with her family, where she likes to watch television (horror is her fav movie genre), read (dark fantasy is her fav genre), and make jewelry.

She has a wonderful husband who is thoughtful, sensitive, and a great father to their daughter, whom they brought into the world the same year they were married—2008. Their daughter is a typical teen, but she’s also selfless, empathetic, and more ...more

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Summer of '99 (Delta County, #2)

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“Note that the apostrophe in fuck's sake is necessary because fuck in this instance is a noun; therefore the word fuck is a possessive noun that takes an apostrophe.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: apostrophe, apostrophes, fuck, fuck-it, fuck-s-sake, punctuation

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“As a noun, shit can pretty much be anything. It's one of the most versatile words in this dicktionary.

For instance, 'While I was shitting, my roommate was yelling some shit from the other room about how I always leave my work shit on the table.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: dictionaries, dictionary, dictionary-quotes, shit, shitting, shitty, shitty-memes, shitty-people, shitty-situation

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“Sage advice: No one should disturb a man while he's on the shitter. It's his personal time.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: poop, pooping, sage-advice, shit, shit-happens, shitter, shitting, toilet, toilet-humor

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“Maintain consistency, achieve success...even with expletives.”
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tags: curse-words, cussing, dictionaries, dictionary, expletives, foul-language, grammar, grammar-book, grammar-humor, grammar-nazis

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“I don't get off on flaunting my badassery; I'm a humble woman.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: badass, badass-boast, badass-lady, badass-quotes, badass-women, badassery, curse-words, cussing, dictionary-quotes, expletives

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“Sage advice: No one should disturb a man while he's on the shitter. It's his personal time.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: poop, pooping, sage-advice, shit, shit-happens, shitter, shitting, toilet, toilet-humor

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“Now when I think my boss is a shithead, I can actually do something about it. I love being my own boss!”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

tags: bad-boss, business-owner, business-ownership, shit-happens, shithead, shitty, shitty-world

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