Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
About Steve Laube Steve Laube, president and founder of The Steve Laube Agency, a veteran of the bookselling industry with nearly 40 years of experience. In the 80s he was a bookstore manager. He then spent over a decade with Bethany House Publishers as an editor. Fifteen years ago he became an agent where he […]
You can listen to this episode 001 – Book Proposals 101 with Steve Laube on Christian Publishing Show.
About Steve Laube Steve Laube, president and founder of The Steve Laube Agency, a veteran of the bookselling industry with nearly 40 years of experience. In the 80s he was a bookstore manager. He then spent over a decade with Bethany House Publishers as an editor. Fifteen years ago he became an agent where he […]You can listen to this episode 001 – Book Proposals 101 with Steve Laube on Christian …
We are very excited to announce the launch of a new feature. “The Christian Publishing Show” podcast hosted by Thomas Umstattd Jr. Each week we will have a new 20-minute podcast for you to listen to online or with any device you’d like to use. Podcasts are a different way to access the great content our agency has to offer. We will be interviewing our own agents, have some …
Today’s cartoon shows how an author can control a free-spirited character. With hilarious results.
This blog is part three of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. One of my elementary school teachers, a blonde, gave birth to twin boys with bright red hair. Her husband was dark-haired. Perhaps in this day and age of sensitivity and multiracial adoptions, no one would flicker a proverbial eyelid at this development. Or at least they would blink …
This world can be a scary place. It is filled with “ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night,” as the old Scottish prayer puts it. It can be especially scary for writers, believe it or not. Even though we don’t get out much. Maybe because we don’t get out much. Sure, there’s a phobia for just about everything; but some are more acute or common among …
Last week, in “response to changes in the industry,” one of which I addressed in the post “Rumbles in CBA,” a new retail association has been formed. The Munce Group has long been a strong collection of Christian retailers who used their combined buying power to market and sell more products in their local stores. With the uncertainty of the ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) and the …
This is fun! Watch the whole thing and see if you are a good observer.
This blog is part two of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. When on its own and free to be itself, my hair curves into waves that the Atlantic Ocean would envy. Prodigious effort must be made to tame it. That prodigious effort originates in the form of a professional blowout. When trying to preserve a blowout, I have found that the perfect room …
I’m not one to complain. Although I didn’t sleep too well last night, and my coffee was a little weak this morning. And I spilled some on my shirt. But I mean, otherwise, I’m not one to complain. After all, there are many great things happening in my life right now, some of which pertain to me being a literary agent—which I posted about last week (“The Best Parts of Being an Agent“). …
