E-book Editor T-Shirts

"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

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,,,'

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

First Novels.

"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."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Reading my Critics

Punctuation Police

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Press Freedom

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

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

"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."

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

'The Questioner'