Okay, here's the deal. When did people become "that" instead of "who?" I hear this on the radio on the TV ( and shouldn't news reporters know better )? and unless my memory is wrong, have even read it in places. Why? How hard is it to remember that people require a "who"? And here's another--myself instead of me. My boss did this all this time and it drove me crazy. Are we so afraid to be in the spotlight that we have to say, "So-and-so and myself did such-and-so?"
For my Revolutionary War adventure, Her Vanquished Land , my main male character is a Welshman with a dark past. Let's find out more about Derec Pritchard with a Character Interview: Derec, the Welsh don't care much fore the English, why do you spy for their cause? The tall, lanky man took a chair. "Aye, I needed money, and to leave Wales after an...incident with my step-father, a horrible man." An incident? "He used his fists on my mum." His black eyes above sharp cheekbones burned fiercely. "I had to stab him, not to death mind. But scared him off. Now I send her money to keep her from being evicted." I see. That was awful for you and your mother. What are your duties is the spying business? "Code breaking. Stopping messengers, taking their satchels." He pushed back his three-cornered hat. "Sending the information to the British generals." Is that how you met Miss Marsh? "Not exactly. She's a hoyden, that one....
