Editing Expert Gifts

"This is definitely the last time for Chapter Seventeen!"

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

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

"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?"

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

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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."

Reading my Critics

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

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

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

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

"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."

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

Press Freedom

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