I hate to be harsh, but the writer for Yahoo! Shine is something of an idiot, who can’t get the simplest facts right. President Obama is NOT writing a children’s book. As anyone who reads the news knows, the president’s book was completed before he took office.
And he didn’t announce he’s writing a children’s book. His publisher announced the upcoming release of the kids’ book. It’s kinda different, ya’know?
But that’s just two of the errors in this article about bad children’s books written by celebrity.
Also really different: Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t published a year before she joined “The View.” Her book, however, was. But that kind of confusion ensues when the writer has no idea where to place a modifier:
“The Sopranos” is the name of a TV show. Putting an apostrophe in there doesn’t make it a possessive. It just makes it wrong. And Steven Schirripa was the co-author of “Nicky Deuce.” More errors include the missing hyphen in 12-year-old and the undercapitalized Mafia:
By the way, I know how to spell Mr. Schirripa’s name because it was on the book cover that the writer so helpfully included in the article:
Dear writer, you know nothing of the British monarchy. You screw up titles right and left. So, please don’t try dealing with titles, like Sarah, Duchess of York. The duchess is not now Sarah Ferguson, except in your mind:
Hey, so it’s not the real name of the book. Who cares?
As long as the reader doesn’t look at the photo that goes with the caption, who’s gonna know?
Never mind the misspelling, take a gander at the hyphen! Why, oh why, hyphenate an adjective and noun?
This article, which is really a piece of fiction, may not be worse that any book it deals with. But this is written by a senior features editor, writing for an Internet giant. You’d think the writing standards would be a little higher. Or that there would at least be writing standards.
Terribly Write 
