It’s always surprising when someone brags and brags about his or her accomplishments as a writer (‘international,” “best-selling,” “award-winning,” etc.) and includes a basic punctuation mistake, like this one, which was made twice in paragraph:
As an internationally-known award-winning author, publisher, and training professional, he has been listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the South & Southeast.
Never, ever hyphenate an -ly adverb. You could also make a case that there should be a comma between “internationally known” and “award-winning” (that is called the coordinate adjective rule), but I’d have to speak with this particular author to find out what exactly he means by this….Hard to imagine, though, that what’s happening here is not the coordinate adjective rule, but I’d have to do a little more digging to find out.
Boo, hiss for authors who can’t write!
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