Editing Enthusiast T-Shirts

'No, go ahead and critique my mss. I'm always ok ... after the initial reaction.'

'Can you redo this manuscript, John, and make it less stupid?'

"I need an editor."

Directors Chair and Others.

Dear Author: Benign way of saying no. Sincerely, The Editors.

"Would you be upset if we marked it as humor?"

'Way to screw up again, pencil. Well here I come to save the day.'

"Well, no wonder you can't think! There's your brain over there on the floor!"

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

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."

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

First Novels.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"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'

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"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

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

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

This Message Has No Content

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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"!

Someone who knows apostrophes