Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Since today is the Friday before a long holiday weekend (at least in the USA), I figure many of you need a break. But not the kind that doesn’t use your brain.
Instead, today’s video shows 10 puzzle problems. Your task is to move one or two matchsticks and change the mathematical equation. Great fun! Play this with your children or grandchildren.
The first one has another solution, if you only have to move one matchstick.
I am in awe that this week marks twenty years since I made the decision to open The Steve Laube Agency. Serving in this capacity in such a vibrant industry has been a privilege. The numbers are staggering. Through the grace of God, the agency has helped secure contracts for over 2,500 new books. The ones published so far have sold over 35,000,000 copies. Think of all those people whose lives have …
This is a video of a new writer who cannot follow our agency’s guidelines. But is having a blast nonetheless. The exasperated agent is trying to be nice, but in the end, the writer must be sent packing.
I love books, especially old or rare ones. Back in college I spent a couple months working in the back room of the university library repairing their rare book collection. I’ll never forget the awe of holding a copy of a book by Theodore Beza, a student of John Calvin, dated in the 1600s. I also recall one summer in Washington D.C. around the now-defunct CBA booksellers convention when a …
A word can have a completely different meaning when placed in a different context. Take the word patience in the two examples below:
James Michener, the bestselling novelist, once said, “I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” And today is your day to follow suit. No one knows your work or what you are trying to accomplish better than you. In that sense, you can be your own best editor. In a 1958 interview with The Paris Review, Ernest Hemingway was asked, “How much rewriting do you do?” Hemingway replied, …
Photo fun for today. Can you come up with your own caption? Here is mine: “The Journey to Publication”
I stumbled over this poem about odd plurals in the English language. There was no attribution. If you know who wrote it, please let me know so I can give proper credit. Very clever! We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a …
Today’s six-minute video explores the making of paper, from forest to scribe. I have visited large printing press operations and seen the warehouses stacked with massive rolls of paper waiting for use. I eventually learned that different types of paper are key to different types of books. Think about the difference between thin Bible paper and the glossy paper in a magazine like National …
Some write in silence. Some write with music in the background. Some write with music playing through their headphones (or earbuds). I’m curious to know what you, our readers, listen to while writing or if you write in silence. In the comments below, let us know your favorites. Maybe we can discover some new musical inspiration together. I read somewhere that Stephenie Meyer, author of the …
