I received a call from a prospective client a few days ago. He said he had called many ghostwriters before finally trying us. We Read More...
A very long time ago, in 1966, while in the U.S. Navy, I bought a 1962 Honda Superhawk. At some point it needed work, so I ordered the shop manual.
I was 20 at the time, helping to run the base newspaper at the Naval Air Facility in El Centro, CA. I wasn't an editor as such but nevertheless typos and other grammatical issues grated on me. And that shop manual was full of broken English. At first I found it amusing, and then I wondered, couldn't Honda afford someone to competently translate the manual from Japanese?
Next, I wondered whether the Japanese-language manual was poorly written. I assumed it was written properly. After all, who would want to be embarrassed in their native language? Apparently, however, they figured there was no problem with being embarrassed in some other language.
Fast forward several decades and we find product text, such as on Amazon and in user manuals, continues to suffer. Chinese electronics manufacturers and distributors seem to be egregiously guilty of deploying bad English. They don't seem to care about getting it right, and therefore come across as sloppy. Who wants to have their corporate reputation damaged because of heedlessness?

Can you use a good laugh? David Thorne is an Australian writer, humorist and satirist. I think he’s a really funny guy. Read More...
I live in the Los Angeles area and LA is notorious for its cop chases. There was one last night. Coverage began on the local CBS Read More...
Believe it or not. This really has nothing to do with writing, but today, a friend stared down at my desk and picked up my old Canon Read More...
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Janet Reid is a literary agent and she has a blog. It seems that many publishers, traditional as well as publish-on-demand, are Read More...
I received a letter from Yelp: CONGRATULATIONS! PEOPLE LOVE GHOSTWRITERS CENTRAL ON YELP! Dear Ghostwriters Central, We’re proud Read More...
Every now and then we get a tip for services well rendered. Today, this arrived in the hands of our chief writer from one of our Read More...
I’m envious of this fellow’s literary output. Chet Cunningham died March 14th, 2017, at age 88. He wrote — and this Read More...
“Gone with the Wind,” color, 1939, happens to be starting on Turner Classic Movies as I write this article. I wondered what Read More...



