Copyeditor Mugs

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."

"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

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

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Punctuation Police

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

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."

"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'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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

Press Freedom