Editorial Expert Gifts

"You tend to overuse the exclamation point."

"I'll have my article pulled together in no time."

NeighWoof.

"It's not bad, but you need to lose the dynamic verbs."

"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."

Campaign for Plain English

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Reading my Critics

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"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."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

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

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

'The Questioner'

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

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'