The Glass Gargoyle (The Lost Ancients Book 1)

Damn and double damn, Crusty Bucket was drunk again.
I looked around as a snippet of song rang out over the noise of the pub. A song sung by only one creature I knew—my
faery, Crusty Bucket—and only when she was dangerously drunk. I had no idea where she was in the pub. The Shimmering
Dewdrop was deep in a raging bar fight and, from the bodies littering the floor, it had started long before I pushed open the
door. Pretty much the norm for a Saturday night . . .

Many beginning writers and editors benefited from a crusty old editor's brisk maxims about the craft. If you want to be reminded of those days, look inside. If you want to learn those brisk maxims, many of them are collected here. And if you aspire to become a crusty old editor, this is the handbook. About the Author: John McIntyre is the night content production manager at The Baltimore Sun and author of the blog You Don't Say at Baltimoresun.com. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, he teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland.