Editorial Staff Pillows

The dangers of cost-cutting

Gay Times...

'What sort of mission statement is that?'

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

Copycats

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

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

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

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

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."

Multi-tasking.

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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

Press Freedom

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