Book Cover Aficionado Mugs

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Invisible Man for All Seasons

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

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

You've read the book's dust jacket. Now, play the video game!

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

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

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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'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.'

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

So You've Cloned Yourself

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Meet the author

"There goes our early night."

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

'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."

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

Learn yourself English.

The joy of sects.

"I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to hurt sales of my 'tell-all' book."

Richard Hughes.

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

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

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

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

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