Literary Editor Gifts

"Is there a dramaturge in the house?"

'It's second-rate writing but luckily there's thousands of second-rate readers. . .'

"Now this is what I call a true work of genius. . . And I haven't even read it yet."

"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?

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

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

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."

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

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

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

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Punctuation Police

Someone who knows apostrophes

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

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

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