I agree with you for the most part [about resubmitting an ms.], but I wanted to chime in on just
one thing, speaking from experience as an editor who reads a lot of
unagented material.
See, I probably …

Hi Sars,
A couple quick makeup recs —
Wet ‘n’ Wild eyeshadow in the little squeeze tube, in cafe au lait,
makes a great eyeshadow base.
Revlon 12-hour Colorstay Eyeshadow quads.
Stila Convertible Color (really pretty on your cheeks, but …

Sars,
My boyfriend and I stayed at The Cosmopolitan Hotel (http://www.cosmohotel.com/)last September and it was fine — the rooms were perfectly clean, if a bit on the small side, the hotel was quiet, and there was …

Sars,
I have had similar trouble with this book.I read it as a kid too, but I had a vague idea of the name.Recently I tracked it down, only to find that it is out of …

I don’t know what Irn means by non-preachy, but a dear athiest friend of mine recently joined a group called SOS. In his words, it is “an organization for those who don’t want to put …

I would recommend checking out the works of Mikhail Bakhtin,
particularly Speech Genres and Other Late Essays and The Dialogic Imagination.
He’s a Russian literary critic/theorist/linguist who may well have
pioneered a lot of the understanding of …

Two ideas:
1) Smell. If, for example, a lemon doesn’t smell lemon-y, it isn’t ripe yet.
2) http://yourproduceman.com/. It’s goofy, but he usually explains how to pick a ripe whatever he is raving about that day. …

Hello there,
I have had a couple of instances in which someone who works for me has had a serious hygiene problem. In the first, I worked for a Major Entertainment Company, which has VERY well-defined, …

I recommend American Apparel’s Sheer Jersey Cap Sleeve Raglan. It’s in the Short-Sleeved section on the website, but it fits like a tank top. It’s lightweight, hides a bra perfectly, and comes in all kinds …

Hi Sars!
My suggestion for Not a Fashonista is to try taking her daughter to juniors departments, especially at department stores like JC Penney.
My largest gripe as a 5’2″, 135-pounder is that nothing they have is …