Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Today’s video kicks off the Christmas season with something word related: “An Anagram Christmas.”
Enjoy!
Below the video are some fun anagrams to enjoy. Can you come up with more?
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Statue of Liberty = built to stay free
Debit card = bad credit
Dormitory = dirty room
Astronomer = moon starer
Eleven plus two = twelve plus one
When a book is physically printed, there are two, among many, decisions that must be made. One is trim size. This means the size of the book itself (5.5” x 8.5”? or something else?). The other is our topic for today. The binding. Binding is the process of gathering the printed pages and assembling them together into a book with a cover. The two most common choices are perfect binding and …
Since it is Thanksgiving weekend, I thought I’d give you a visual “thank you” to all you readers! Good ‘ol Hoops and YoYo always make me smile. Thank you. (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)
by Steve Laube
Whenever I lecture about money the room becomes unusually quiet. Instead of a common restlessness from listeners there is a thrumming impatience to reveal the punch line. The punch line that declares every writer will be rich.
Now that I have our attention let’s turn to the topic of the day. The Advance. This is defined as the money a publisher pays to the author in …
The world’s highest post office (in the Himalayas) is today’s topic. As the description reads, “Rinchen Chhering has been the devoted postmaster since it opened in 1983. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night keeps Chhering from getting to work every day.” While it’s a fascinating three-minute video, I have to wonder if some of my recent postal mail had …
Those of you who have followed our blog are aware of the rather “interesting” proposals or pitches we receive. After so many years of doing this, it is almost hard to be surprised. Until a recent telephone exchange. Me: This is Steve Laube.Caller: How do I go about getting an idea to your company?Me: Have you looked at our website? It’s all laid out there for anyone to …
Since most of you changed your clocks this past weekend (we in Arizona did not because we are the smart ones), I found this video that is fascinating. Two islands two miles apart, but at the same time are 21 hours apart. And they are “in” two different countries. (There is a commercial in the last 40 seconds that cannot be removed.) Enjoy!
In a post written last weekend Richard Curtis, agent extraordinaire, expressed surprise at a new morality clause that has apparently appeared in HarperCollins' contracts. Read his post here [warning: there is some Adult content and comments included in the post].
What the general market doesn't realize is that many Faith-based publishers have had a "moral turpitude" clause in their contracts …
Do you ever have a physical, visceral reaction to something you don’t want to do? Like write a book proposal? Or write the middle third of your book? Get up in front of a thousand people to speak? Today’s video is the hilarious drama-queen response of a dog getting her nails clipped. I’ll have to admit, this is awfully close to my reaction when I have to have blood drawn. If I …
We are so very proud that Amanda Cox was awarded the Christy Award Book-of-the Year this past week for her novel The Edge of Belonging (Revell)! Amanda is represented by Tamela and we are so thrilled for her. To be eligible she had to also win in her category of best first novel. Way to go! In addition, our agency also saw Roseanna White win the award for best Historical Romance for A Portrait of …
