Nature Magazine Editor Mugs

'Perhaps you'll make it up to the cover of 'National Geographic' but no antelope will ever respect you again as the savannas' most dangerous predator.'

"Glady, National Geographic is gone! Break out the beef jerky again!"

"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.

"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.

'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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

"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."

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

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

Press Freedom

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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

"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."

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