Where is that period, Mister?

Edits on I Am an American are back. I thought the editor that was hired for the project did an excellent job. She gave a lot of good suggestions as well as the line editing.

For one thing, so many authors I know have forsaken the hyphenated words. Example: English speaking instead of English-speaking. It took me a long time to get used to that and leave the hyphens out. She put the hyphens in the words. I'm good with that. I almost feel vindicated.

One thing that puzzled me is that all my periods after the abbreviations Mr. and Mrs. disappeared. The editor did it as part of the style, but I have never seen (or noticed) written works edited that way before. Frankly, I'm not comfortable with it. I always write those abbreviations with periods afterwards.

Hmmm.....

This is an international collection. Maybe it isn't done that way in English-speaking nations outside of the United States. Time to check with the editor.

Addendum:

Heard back from the editor. Putting no periods after a title abbreviation is more of a UK thing and not a USA thing. She decided to make all the punctuation for the stories in the anthology uniform. Okay, I'll go with that -- for now.

7-7-7 Challenge

Every several months on Facebook, authors will start a round-robin challenge call 

7-7-7.

We are to share seven sentences (or paragraphs, if short) from the seventh page of our current work in progress, then invite seven other authors to join the challenge.

I Am an American,

although theoretically finished, 

is still a work in progress since I am now in that not-so-fun stage of editing. 

My copy and content editing notes were recently returned, so it is time to get busy and make the corrections.

But first, here is my 7-7 offering for 

I Am an American:

      Pride crept into Ellen’s voice. “Yes. I'm Nisei, born in America. I'm an American citizen, same as you. But, we celebrate Thanksgiving to remember the Japanese experience of our family coming to America after we became Christians.”

     “That makes sense.” Flo paused as a question popped into her mind. She held out a hand to stop Ellen from entering their Trig classroom long enough to ask. “Ellen, are your parents American citizens too? Or do they still consider themselves Japanese?”

     A cloud of sorrow descended upon Ellen’s face. “My parents are proud to be born Japanese, but came to the United States willing to become Americans. It's the government that won’t allow them to be citizens.

I Am an American is scheduled to be published as part of box set of stories written by authors from around the world and will be available in November, 2016.