Copy Editor Gifts

"I translate books from English into better English."

Editor.

"I was a gainfully employed copy editor. Suddenly, one day, I couldn't tell an em dash from an en dash."

Speling Bee

A Copy Editor and His Dog

I am here, at this moment, in front of you, both of us here, at your newspaper, to apply for a position, with the hopes of getting a job, with you, here, as a copy editor.

This bible is finished so can you do a spell check please Father Barnabus.

"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."

Campaign for Plain English

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

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

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

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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Punctuation Police

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

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

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

Someone who knows apostrophes

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

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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