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  • Instead, your book should have a title like, "Alabaster Johnny and the Sagebrush Thrust"... hmm, somehow I managed to outdipshit the New Yorkish hipsters on that one... okay, try this instead: "The Shepherd's Whistle."

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • Now, the obvious instinct when confronted with this information is to go screaming in the other direction and title your manuscript something esoteric and New Yorkish hipster dipshit like, "Capricorn."

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • Now, the obvious instinct when confronted with this information is to go screaming in the other direction and title your manuscript something esoteric and New Yorkish hipster dipshit like, "Capricorn."

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • Instead, your book should have a title like, "Alabaster Johnny and the Sagebrush Thrust"... hmm, somehow I managed to outdipshit the New Yorkish hipsters on that one... okay, try this instead: "The Shepherd's Whistle."

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • I know you think that your story needs a cover-based explanation to help convey to the feebs in the local bookstore that your family really is, "All that and a bag of chips," but what you are doing, really, is convincing the New Yorkish cultural elite that you have all the cajones of a Ms. Potato Head and not the Eastern Russian Ms. Potato Head either.

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • I know you think that your story needs a cover-based explanation to help convey to the feebs in the local bookstore that your family really is, "All that and a bag of chips," but what you are doing, really, is convincing the New Yorkish cultural elite that you have all the cajones of a Ms. Potato Head and not the Eastern Russian Ms. Potato Head either.

    Jeff Klima: A Fighting Lion: Exercises in Awesome Titles Jeff Klima 2011

  • I think for Senator Clinton to have Mayor Bloomberg on may be too New Yorkish for too many people.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2008 2008

  • Even among a circle of headstrong windbags, he distinguished himself by an immense New Yorkish impatience to succeed.

    Our Best Writer, Revived Again��� Melville Made Whole at Last 2005

  • Even among a circle of headstrong windbags, he distinguished himself by an immense New Yorkish impatience to succeed.

    Our Best Writer, Revived Again- Melville Made Whole at Last 2005

  • You are not by chance related to a Yorkish family by the name of Nash?

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

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