title: Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth
author:  Karen Elizabeth Gordon 
description: The author of <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679418601/${0}">The Deluxe Transitive Vampire</a></i> and <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0395628830/${0}">The New Well-Tempered Sentence</a></i> returns with a styleguide for the gothic set, featuring a cast of feathered duchesses, baby dragons, and lascivious banditti. As always, Karen Elizabeth Gordon's sample sentences are beguiling enough to distract even the staunchest logophile from the matter at hand. Nonetheless, she manages to tidily dispose of some of the English language's most ancient and troublesome dilemmas, from the difference between "affect" and "effect" to the intricacies of the split-infinitive debate. Enhanced by the tiny, whimsical line drawings of Rikki Ducornet, this is one styleguide you just might read like a novel.
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  ## **Miles, Mystery & Mayhem**
  
  ##  **Lois McMaster Bujold**
  
  > This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  > book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is
  > purely coincidental.  
  >  
  >  _Cetaganda_ copyright © 1996; _Ethan of Athos_ copyright © 1986;
  > "Labyrinth" copyright © 1989; "Author's Afterword" copyright © 2001; all by
  > Lois McMaster Bujold.  
  >  
  > All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  > thereof in any form.  
  >  
  > A Baen Books Original  
  >  
  > Baen Publishing Enterprises  
  > P.O. Box 1403  
  > Riverdale, NY 10471  
  > www.baen.com  
  >  
  > ISBN: 0-671-31858-6  
  >  
  > Cover art by Patrick Turner  
  > Interior map by Eleanor Kostyk  
  >  
  > First printing, December 2001  
  >  
  > Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  > Bujold, Lois McMaster.
  >
  
  >> Miles, mystery & mayhem / by Lois McMaster Bujold.  
  > p. cm.  
  > "A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.  
  > Cont