Copy Editor Pillows

"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

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

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,,,'

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

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

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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

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

Punctuation Police

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

Someone who knows apostrophes

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

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

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"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."

Press Freedom