Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Every. Single. Action movie trailer in one short visual instruction kit.
While hilarious in it’s send up of cliches, it should make every author think of how they are pitching their current book to an agent or a publisher. This “formula” is a form of your competition for people’s attention.
Enjoy
We are very excited to announce that during the recent ACFW (American Christan Fiction Writers) annual event, Tamela was named Agent-of-the-Year! ACFW has the largest gathering of Christan fiction authors in the country. I can personally attest to Tamela’s abilities and her success. She is an extremely hard worker who loves her clients and her job. There are few in this industry who can match her …
by Steve Laube
Recent I have run into a common misunderstanding. Some writers use the words "marketing" and "publicity" (or P.R. "public relations") as synonyms when actually one is a subset of the other.
There are marketing departments that have a publicity division or a marketing department that outsources their publicity. The two go hand in hand and should compliment each other.
The …
With all the chaos in our world we sometimes just have to laugh. Hope today’s video makes you smile!
There are some songs that simply make your heart beat faster. But when played at lightning speed you have to stop and watch. “The Flight of the Bumblee” …. on the accordion. Anybody out there know how to play the accordion?
Since this upcoming Labor Day weekend in many ways spells the official end of Summer I thought it appropriate to listen to a Beach Boys song! What makes this unusual is that what you hear is vocal only. All the instruments have been removed. Shows the beautiful genius of their voices. Enjoy “Wouldn’t it Be Nice?” [Trivia note: The late Glen Campbell was one of the greatest guitar …
This is a special fun Friday. Our youngest daughter is getting married today. This makes three married daughters. At the risk of making myself a puddle of sentimentality, I can only say that I am proud of all our girls. Today, for the last time, I will be walking a daughter down the aisle. She may be all grown up along with her sisters, but I will always carry the below photo in my wallet and in …
A hilarious confrontation between an Elephant and a Goose. (It gets rather creative at the 30 second mark.) There has to be a metaphor somewhere in this video. Which one to do think is most appropriate? Publisher and Agent? (Which one is which?) A writers conference meeting in the hallway between a writer and an editor? Little Brother vs. Big Brother in Grandma’s backyard? Come up with your …
Check out Lumen 5, (www.lumen5.com) a wonderful resource that can help you create videos out of your blog posts. As a test I took my post from July 31st, “Should You Hire a Freelance Editor?” and within 45 minutes the following video was complete. (Read more below the embedded video) Lumen 5 has a powerful AI engine that took keywords from my selected sentences and assigned most of the …
