E-book Editor Gifts

"Personally, I loved your novel. Unfortunately, our e-book editor says it just doesn't work on the little screen!"

"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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"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'

First Novels.

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

Reading my Critics

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

"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"!

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."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

'The Questioner'

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

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

Press Freedom

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

Gay Times...