Book Dedication Enthusiast Gifts

'This book is dedicated to my beautiful wife. She is highly intelligent, gifted, caring and perfect in every way. I could not live without her. She also writes my book dedications.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

Victor Hugo

Edgar Allen Poe

Reading my Critics

Television Readers.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

Stephen Spender.

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Gunter Grass

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

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

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

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

Noel Coward.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

'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.'

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

My Literary Influences

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Ironing Punctuation

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

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

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'