Very many writers have a very bad habit of overusing “very.” The word “very” is an adverb that, when added to an adjective, implies emphasis or multiplies its effect. This problem has been ongoing for years. So many authors have put in their two cents regarding the issue. Mark Twain sug...

Can you smell it? Love is in the air! It is that one day in the year when you can openly and unapologetically profess your love to someone. And we have St. Valentine to thank for that. St. Valentine was a Roman priest who constantly contradicted then-emperor Claudius II. Under Claudius II’s r...

In 2011, the literary world was rocked by the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, an erotic romance that tells the story of timid editor Anastasia Steele and business magnate Christian Grey as they enter a Dom/sub agreement. Who would have known that the book had been penned by a suburban London...