diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 55ce66e..86df6b1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ We welcome suggestions to this reading list.
 
 In the [issues](https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering/issues)
 for this repository we track specific suggestions for additions and
-topics that we'd like to cover don't have good resources for yet.
+topics that we'd like to cover but don't have good resources for yet.
 
 Please make your own suggestions by opening an issue or commenting
 on an existing one. Please prefer issues to pull requests and one
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ issue for each suggested resource.
 
 Note that the list only includes material that's been read
 personally by the editor, so some suggestions may have a long
-turnaround time, especially books.
+turnaround time, especially books and conferences.