Book Advocates Gifts

"I would like a book."

"HR-bill 9495. Cutting down non-profits."

Reading my Critics

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

'He was a great writer'

'We'd like to form a support group for homework anxiety.'

Tequila Mockingbird

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

'My manuscript is available for download on the internet. I'll email the link to you.'

So You've Cloned Yourself

Meet the author

"There goes our early night."

'Gifted class, indeed. One is gifted in science, but he can't read - one is gifted in reading, but won't even try math...'

"We'd like to publish it, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in less than a month."

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

'LOVELY school. But where's the library?' 'What's a library?'

Learn yourself English.

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

"Did you ask for the large print edition?"

Clara had come a long waw from those readings at the public library.

"I love you, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth, but I'm through getting slippers for someone who hasn't published anything since 1997."

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The Month of August

"Good evening. In today's top story, my book has jumped to Number Three on the best-seller list."

Book market

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'