I was reading that saying to myself, sounds just like . . . ah there it is! Zing!
That is so much easier to read! The way you have it laid out, it also makes me not miss the quotes, either. Good point on "say" getting overused...
You may be right there, but it's hard for me to picture that paragraph being readable without the three sets of quotes. Maybe I just need to tell...
Very good to know what they're looking for in the submission standards. Interesting to hear that even the titles stay at 12 point, like you banged...
Cogito convinced me not to go straight to a self-publishing mindset, so help me out on this, would the most logical first two steps be to start...
Separate names with a comma.