Medical Editor Gifts

Medical Journal. I edited the article on pulmonary treatments. Now I need to write an abstract summarizing it. Ah, making a lung story short.

'We'll have to have this appendix out. . .'

"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.

"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

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."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

First Novels.

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

Punctuation Police

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

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

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."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

'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."

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