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I hope that anyone considering these alternatives to said and asked book does further study. There are many books about writing dialogue and books on writing in general that will tell you said and asked are invisible to the reader. Change them to some words referenced in this work (interjected, for example) and they become noticeable in a bad way. The author has mixed dialogue tags with action tags such as laughed, smiled, and others. A character cannot smile a word, nor can he laugh one. Adding an adverb to a dialogue tag is also frowned upon by those who write about writing, and by writers themselves. Do yourself a favor and learn the differences between a dialogue tag: "That's a funny one," John said. (dialogue tag) and "That's a funny one." John laughed. (action tag, sometimes called a beat) or "That's a funny one," John said, laughing. ( a combination dialogue/action tag. Notice the difference in punctuation between the various tags.