Coffee-fueled Editor Gifts

An expletive of editors

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

Copycats

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Squeezing the Free Press.

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

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

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

The Department of Blind-Side Bias, Knowledge Gaps and Really Great Coffee.

First Novels.

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Reading my Critics

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."

Punctuation Police

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Someone who knows apostrophes

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tick, tock-tock, tickety-tick tock ….

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Press Freedom

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

'The Questioner'