Steve Laube

News You Can Use – June 26, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 26, 2012

What Successful People do Before Breakfast – Reading this made me want to take a nap.

Free Tools for the Frugal Writer – Bob Evenhouse provides some good advice.

The Noisier it is, the Better You Work? – An argument to head to a coffee shop to do your work.

Do You Own Your Kid’s Domain Name? – Good advice in today’s world. I am glad I had the foresight to grab my name as a domain in the mid-90s.

Learn about Amazon’s Algorithm – Put on your thinking cap and read this with interest!

The Book Industry Wants (Needs) Better Medadata – A key component to today’s marketing efforts.

Fun Fridays – June 22, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 22, 2012

Someone had to be first!

Category: Fun Fridays

News You Can Use – June 19, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 19, 2012

IVP Takes a Book Out-of-Print Because of Errors – This is an impressive (and expensive) response by a publisher. A review by Carl Trueman detailed numerous factual errors, typos, and mistakes for an academic volume on the Reformation. IVP correctly responded by removing the book from circulation and will fix the errors and re-release the book this Summer. And will replace, for free, any …

Category: News You Can Use, Steve

Inside a Publishing Company

By Steve Laubeon June 18, 2012

by Steve Laube

I just returned from three days at the Write! Canada writers conference outside Toronto. During my time there I presented a six session lecture series on the Complete Publishing Process: From Idea to Print.

When the entire process is compressed into a short series like that it becomes evident how many people are involved in the publishing of a book at any given publishing …

Category: Book Business, Defense of Traditional Publishing, Marketing, Steve, The Publishing LifeTag: publishing, Publishing A-Z

News You Can Use – June 12, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 12, 2012

Content Abundance - What Do We Do About It? - A question every author, every marketer, and every publisher is asking. When there are one million titles on Amazon and you click a key word search, how do you find what you want?

11 Tumblr Tips for Power Users - Remember to type tumblr (without the "e") if you visit their site.

The History of Air Conditioning - I'm sorry I had to include this. …

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Fun Fridays – June 8, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 8, 2012

Editorial "negotiation."

Category: Fun FridaysTag: Humor

News You Can Use – June 5, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 5, 2012

Six Tough Truths About Self-Publishing (That the Advocates Never Seem to Talk About) - Rob Hart writes an insightful and cautionary tale.

22 Rules of Story Telling According to Pixar - This is an excellent article for every novelist to read.

10 Great Science Fiction Novels for People Who Don't Read Sci-Fi - I have to say that I agree with only four of their choices. Such is the nature of …

Category: News You Can Use, SteveTag: Amazon, Craft, science fiction, Self-Publishing, speed reading, story, word count

Fun Fridays – June 1, 2012

By Steve Laubeon June 1, 2012

M.C. Grammar.... ???

A pseudo-good idea gone hopelessly strange. Only two minutes long.

Category: Fun Fridays, GrammarTag: Grammar, Humor

News You Can Use – May 29, 2012

By Steve Laubeon May 29, 2012

Self-Publishing: Under 10% Earn a Living - An article out of Australia makes a bold claim. I would claim, however, that only 10% of traditionally published writers earn a living too. Of course that depends on your definition of "a living."

100 Best First Lines from Novels - In honor of the last two weeks where we talked about "first lines" I found this article from the American Book Review that …

Category: Craft, Grammar, Marketing, News You Can Use, SteveTag: commas, copyediting, Editing, Grammar, podcasting, Self-Publishing

Fun Fridays – May 25, 2012

By Steve Laubeon May 25, 2012

This has been around for five years. It still makes me smile every time.

"When it comes to a good book, Stephen King's resume just can't compare."

Category: Fun FridaysTag: Humor