Story Editor Gifts

"When I come to edit my life, this will be a deleted scene."

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

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Copycats

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

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

Punctuation Police

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

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

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

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

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

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

"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."

'The Questioner'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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