Book Editor Mugs

"I'm talking so much about books I haven't read I feel like I'm back in publishing."

New from Low-Key Press.

"I can see you drew heavily from your own bad writing."

"It's a book about the bloody death of a publisher who turned down a book about the bloody death of a publisher who..."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Identity Crisis - Who Thinks They're Who

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

Isabel Allende

You need a new reading light

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Woman looking at display sign in bookshop that reads 'Just Published. Dealing with the Guilt of Not Reading Gift Books.'

'Literary agency' "About your idea for a book on NATO's role in Kosovo? Russian author got there first"

'We recommend you not go on tour to promote your self-help investment book.'

'I can't read your manuscript now, Miss Austen, I'm going speed dating.'

'You write books, you say!'

Traddles and I in conference with the Misses Spenlow

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Subway Thrillers

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Copycats

Squeezing the Free Press.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

Campaign for Plain English

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

First Novels.

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"