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Title: Commas Are Our Friends by Joe Devine, Bob Markey, Rita Hayes ISBN: 1-882010-07-8 Publisher: Green Stone Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Grammar Without Grief; Punctuation Without Pain
Comment: Joe Devine teaches grammar and punctuation through stories. As a skydiver with 1,206 jumps, I love the story of the parachute where the canopy was replaced in the container with popcorn (she landed safely in a haystack).

Anyway, writers will enjoy Joe's financial experience in publishing and this will give you an idea as to his writing.

Human Costs of Literary Creation Finally Revealed

Everybody knows the price of a book, but how many know the cost? For the first time ever the human costs of writing have been measured in dollars and cents. The heartaches, the sacrifices, the psychic bruises-they're all there. Herewith the human costs of the 2,042 first printing of Commas Are Our Friends by Joe Devine:

1. The agony of creation, the anguish of being a sensitive artist in a harsh and cruel world $4,415.99 2. The sting of anonymity, the pain of not being lionized by total strangers $1,831.35 3. The aching injustice of not receiving a large advance from greedy, money﷓mad publishers $3,965.08 4. The annoyance of having people insist that the book be published before they pay for it $2,942.74 5. The hurt and humiliation of not making even one pre﷓publication bestseller list $2,627.50 6. The shock of being snubbed by the Pulitzer Prize Committee $3,500.00 7. The misery of receiving a balanced, perceptive and completely honest review $4,726.13 8. Fresh, creative, original ideas $3.41

Total: $24,012.20

There you have it. Figures don't lie. The human costs come to $11.76 per book, but Commas Are Our Friends retails for $11.95. That leaves a profit of $.19 a copy, thus honoring Dr. Johnson's dictum: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money".

As the author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I highly recommend this fun book. [email protected].

Rating: 3
Summary: Learning punctuation can be fun.
Comment: This is a punctuation lesson in the form a mystery book. I wish I had read it in grade school or high school. After reading it, I found remembering the proper way to punctuate much easier. It is not as well written as an Agatha Christie mystery, but I cannot think of a more entertaining way to learn.