Newsletter Editor Pillows

"No, really, we publishing titans do value the opinion of a newsletter editor."

'If I see one more quote from a source not wanting to be identified, I'm canning our company newsletter.'

'The food's inedible, the beatings, merciless, and the rats, voracious - but the monthly newsletter is splendid.'

"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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

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."

First Novels.

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

Reading my Critics

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"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"!

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."

Press Freedom

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."

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

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

'The Questioner'