Every once in a while it is “fun” to do more than laugh. Instead we can revel in the beauty of God’s creation.
Enjoy this incredible time-lapse study of the leaves turning in Central Park. Less than three minutes long.
News You Can Use – Dec. 4, 2012
Guideposts sells Ellie Claire Line and Selected Summerside Titles to Worthy Publishing - Worthy Publishing adds a great gift book line along with some Summerside non-fiction to their company. Plus they added a new VP, Jason Rovenstine, who joins them from his similar role at Ellie Claire/Summerside. The Summerside fiction line remains with Guideposts with no editorial changes. Guideposts fiction …
Fun Fridays – Nov. 30, 2012
You may have seen some of the “Gangnam Style” song parodies that are all over the Internet. (By the way, the original Gangnam Style video is now the most watched YouTube video of all time with over 830 million views...since July.)
Recently the cast of Arizona Broadway Theatre's "Oklahoma," where my daughter Fiona is performing, just released their version called “Oklahoma Style.”
Be sure …
News You Can Use – Nov. 27, 2012
McGraw-Hill Agrees To Sell Its Education Publishing Business For $2.5 billion - Someone thinks publishing is still worth a lot of money!
Using Elements of Your Story to Market Your Book - Great article by Debby Mayne
Daily Routines of Famous Writers - Take a look at how Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Ernest Hemingway, and others did their work.
Amazon Takes on Supermarkets with Groceries …
Fun Fridays – Nov. 23, 2012
Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend!
A fun video from Igniter Media for you.
News You Can Use – Nov. 20, 2012
Family Christian Stores in a Buyout - The largest Christian bookstore chain in the country will have new owners. They have 280 stores in 36 states. The chain's management in partnership with some investors has acquired the chain from its previous private equity owners.
Tyndale House Publishers Wins Their Courthouse Battle - Great news! I previously posted regarding the potential that an …
Fun Fridays – Nov. 16, 2012
It is likely you have seen the various parodies of the infamous scene of Hitler in a bunker in a rage. Because the clip is in German many people have had fun putting in their own English subtitles.
Today's Fun Friday is the same scene, but this time Hitler is a frustrated author in a rage over the pending merger of Random House and Penguin.
The last subtitle is perfect.
News You Can Use – Nov. 13, 2012
HarperCollins Closes Two Warehouses - in Scranton, PA and Nashville, TN. In case you are wondering this includes the Thomas Nelson Publishers warehouse, which if you ever visited, is a massive facility. HarperCollins already has closed the Zondervan warehouse in Grand Rapids. This is one of the consolidation moves where the parent company makes money by reducing duplicate efforts. It does not mean …
The C.S. Lewis Retreat 2012
by Steve Laube
C.S. Lewis wrote "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” And later he wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” (from The World's Last Night: And Other Essays).
I just returned from a weekend teaching at the C.S. Lewis Foundation Retreat near Houston. It is a marvelous time of spiritual and intellectual …