Book Dedication Enthusiast Mugs

'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."

Edgar Allen Poe

Reading my Critics

Television Readers.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

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

"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'

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

"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.'

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

Ironing Punctuation

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

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

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

My Literary Influences

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

'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.'

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'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!'

LIBRARY, 'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'