I wrote this sentence in a review of Bloodbond May 2018:

‘The premise of Bloodbond seems to be that vampires can be put in many different settings. They are no longer lonely, aristocratic outsiders mugging people in dark alleys or seducing maidens. But that was such fun!’

My Pro-Writer software (which is very useful) objected to the passive tense of ‘vampires can be put’ so I changed it to this:

‘The premise of Bloodbond seems to be that writers can put vampires in many different settings. They are no longer lonely, aristocratic outsiders mugging people in dark alleys or seducing maidens. But that was such fun!’

From an anti-passive point of view, this is better. The writers are putting the vampires in a direct fashion. Vampires are not passively put.

The trouble is, this seems to mean that writers were once ‘lonely, aristocratic outsiders mugging people in dark alleys or seducing maidens.’ Adding ‘But that was such fun!’ makes writers sound even worse!

So I changed it back to the original sentence. Sometimes passive voice works best.

I’m off to a dark alley now to mug someone and seduce a maiden but you can read the review of Bloodbond May 2018 on sfcrowsnest. And you can still buy it in the Smashwords sale for just one dollar, yea even unto mobi files if you are so enchained.

All my books are free on Smashwords too. It’s your fault. You wouldn’t buy them.