Helen's Friend Comments

Congrats on being a prize finalist!.

Dolors wrote: "Honored (and thrilled!) to be your friend, Hellen. Thanks for sending a request. Best wishes from Barcelona! :)"

Thank you for accepting, Dolors! I've been reading your moving and lyrical comments and reviews for so long, I can't believe we haven't been friends for all these years!

Honored (and thrilled!) to be your friend, Hellen. Thanks for sending a request. Best wishes from Barcelona! :)

Oh, that's so nice! Thank you, Kris! I look forward to it too!

Helen, thank you so much for the friend request! I'm delighted to accept it, and look forward to many good discussions with you, including in the Buddenbrooks group. :)

Jessica--just to be perfectly clear---you use Garamond for manuscripts that you send to your editors and publishers?

No. Just for the usual stuff, words in foreign languages, or for emphasis.

you're not using italic for the whole ms., are you? that wouldn't be good.

Really? It would be great if I didn't have to change it. Thanks for the note, Jessica. Big help.

Helen, I couldn't help seeing your comments on my feed about Times New Roman vs. Garamond... I wouldn't think it matters. Garamond is a much nicer typeface and isn't so wildly different from standard Times. I'm one for visual effect...there's an elegance to Garamond. My 2c. (unasked for, I know!)

Sketchbook wrote: "Great comment by you to Paul on the 'secret institution.'"

Thanks! I actually thought he was quoting from a book he was writing!

Great comment by you to Paul on the 'secret institution.'