Copyeditor Gifts

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

"My parents didn't write it--they just tweaked it."

His last words were, "Stop correcting my grammar!" Here Lays Fred P. Smink.

"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.

"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

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

First Novels.

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."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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

Reading my Critics

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Punctuation Police

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

A Copy Editor and His Dog

"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."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

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

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

"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?'