The Blood Red Pencil is one of the finalists in the Grammar.net Contest for the Best Grammar Blog of 2011. Vote for the blog you like and help us win great prizes from Grammar.net. All votes must be entered between September 26th and October 17th, 2011. The grand-prize winners and two runners-up will be announced on or before October 27th, 2011. We have decided that should we win, if we win, when we win, we will use the gift card to order some books on writing that we will then offer to our readers. So please take a moment to go vote for us, assuming that you really do like the blog enough to do that, and help spread the word via your blogs, Facebook Twitter, etc. You can copy the line below to use in your efforts to help us. Vote for the Best Grammar Blog of 2011- Blood Red Pencil is one of the finalists - English Grammar Newsletter http://t.co/y7pK29de  Thanks, and now back to our regularly scheduled program.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maryann Miller is an author and fre...