I received an email tonight from editor@thevampirejournal.com Kinda creeped me out. I didn’t even know that anyone else was monitoring this site. I’m not overly shocked by that in and of itself. I’m more freaked about the content of the email. I quote:

“There is something you do that is, I’m sorry to say, a bit of nails on chalkboard for my inner grammar Nazi. It’s “of” – should of, would of, might of, all should be have“

Then they continued on by giving me suggestions on how to rewrite!

“I quickly decided that he wasn’t on PCP, but I was when he stood over me smiling that shit eating vampire grin that he has. Fangs out, Laughing. Then he said “I’m not going to give you the choice that I had”. All I could think about as he bit the hell out of me was that this monster, this vampire was misquoting vampire movies. Seriously. I’m fucking doomed to idiot monsters that are so high on being what they are that they regurgitated Hollywood.”…but that I was…
…that shit-eating vampire grin that he has; all fangs-out, laughing silently….this monster, this vampire, was misquoting vampires movies. (paragraph break)And whatever descriptors you like.

Great, now I not only get to be around vampires all the time, I probably have to deal with a vampire editor! Maybe I’ll learn something, or maybe I’ll tell them to just deal with my white trash upbringing.