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[30 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Bureau Chief Signings and Events

Do you yearn for the chance to meet a Bureau Chief in the flesh? Your desires may finally come true with this list of upcoming book signing events!
Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Anna Neatrour will give a talk about Write More Good and social media at the Salt Lake City Library
Friday, June 3, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Benjamin Birdie, Josh Krach, Dr. Andrew Kunka, PhD, and Chris Sims
Park Road Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, June 16 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Dave “Lego” Lartigue
Octavia Books
New Orleans
Signings you wish you attended:
Wednesday, …

Book Excerpts, Featured, Headline »

[20 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
New Write More Good Excerpt Available

The Visual Thesaurus is hosting a newly available excerpt of Write More Good. Now you can learn how to be a better wordsmith.

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[9 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Recent Reviews and Philadelphia Daily News

Time out for a little fun (The Blood-Red Pencil)
Humorous websites for journalists

Fake out: Twitter group writes the book on its grammar spoof (Philadelphia Daily News)

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Reviews »

[21 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
DFW Quick article and Library Journal review

DFW Quick features an interview with Ken Lowery and selected favorite tweets from the Bureau Chiefs
Write More Good got a starred review in Library Journal’s Xpress Reviews for April 22nd 2011

Bureau Chief Signings, Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Reviews »

[20 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
New Reviews and Bureau Chief News

The Bureau Chiefs Wants You to ‘Write More Good’ (bookotron)
First part of article about Dr. Andrew Kunka’s signing today
Satirical guide says it’s time to LOL at grammar (Chicago Tribune article about Write More Good and Matt Wilson)

Book Excerpts, Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline »

[15 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
New Write More Good Excerpt in Free Wired iPad Issue

In the latest print issue of Wired, you can read a wonderful article from FakeAPStylebook on Critical Theory. For those of you with iPads, when you download the free May issue, you can also download an excerpt from our book, “The Shiny Money Box, Or Technology and the Death of All Paper.”

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured »

[15 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Article by Matt and Podcast with Ken

Bureau Chief Matt Wilson picks 10 language tips—from the Fake AP Stylebook for Ragan.com
Ken Lowery appears on the Media Shift Media Twits Podcast

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[12 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Life Magazine Gallery and Write More Good Tips

Life Magazine pairs classic photos with writing tips from Write More Good
How to Write News More Good
It comes as a surprise to many non-journalists, but there really is a Bible of reporting: the hugely influential Associated Press Stylebook, which is issued annually with rules on how to (and how not to) write news stories. Little wonder, then, that this sacred cow was lampooned by the Bureau Chiefs, an iconoclastic group of journalists, artists, writers, and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who fashioned their own reporter’s stylebook in the vein of legendary satirist …

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[11 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Glossary Excerpts and More Reviews

Read some of the glossary definitions in Write More Good at the Kirkus blog post ‘Write More Good’: A Guide From @FakeAPStylebook
More Reviews and posts:
FREE ‘Write More Good’ giveaway – just tell us your #jpeeve (SPJ Works)
‘Desperation, perspiration, and grammar advice’: The story behind @FakeAPStyleBook (Ragan’s PR Daily)
Weekend Reading: Maberry, Wes Craven, Tamara Drewe and Dave Dorman (Comix 411)
Book Review: Write More Good (The Great Geek Manual)
read up! (readandblack.com)

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[7 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
More Recent Reviews

“20 percent funny” (Columbia Journalism Review)
Grammar as Punchline: Write More Good (New Yorker Book Bench Blog)
‘Write More Good’ a hilarious spoof on ‘AP Stylebook,’ offers keen insight on what not to do (Central Michigan Life)
How To Write More Good (or, Writing Advice So Bad, You’ll Get Fired… And Laugh About It) (the writer underground)
The ongoing death of print journalism and bizarre bazaars (bookish)
RADAR NYC 4.7.11 (Work Book Project)

@FakeAPStylebook se burla de los errores típicos del periodismo