Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
This is the perfect illustration on the importance of “voice” in a book.
The first version is the way it should be.
The second version is how so many books sound to an editor’s ear.
Beyond that, the video is simply a brilliant expression of what creativity sounds like!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhJIFC8xkY
HT: Trissina Kear
February 29th comes every U.S. Presidential election year. It is called Leap Year day. I pondered what we could do to celebrate this reaccuring phenomenon. Should we sing along with Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” when Frederic discovers that he was born on February 29th and the whole story turns on a most ingenious paradox? Instead I thought we could play around with all the uses of …
A lack of gravity doesn’t stop this group from making an amazing video. The combination of music, choreography, creativity, and sheer genius is breathtaking. Enjoy!
British sketch comedy at its finest. Imagine how much fun they had writing the sketch and then performing it! HT: Kim Moore
This is one of my favorites. The barbershop quartet “Main Street” imagines what their music will sound like twenty years from now. They are really good. You owe it to yourself to spent 8 1/2 minutes listening to the fun. Hope this brings a smile to your day.
The Super Bowl is over. Baseball won’t start Spring training for another month. The basketball season is another month away from March Madness and the playoffs. Hockey is in mid-season. What is a sports fan to do? I know, read about sports! I have read dozens of these kind of books and would like to suggest a few. This is by no means a definitive list. In fact, it reflects my own tastes more than …
A tender animated short film (4 minutes). Watch it all the way through. You’ll be glad you did. This short film, by film student Jacob Frey, just finished a circuit of 180 film festivals where it won 50 different awards. Now that you’ve watched the film you can see the short web-comic it was based on. (click here) Like it on Facebook! (Facebook Page: The Present)
Imagine Mozart and Adele co-writing a song together. You might end up with something like this latest piece from The Piano Guys. A combination of Adele’s “Hello” and Mozart’s “Lacrimosa” from his Requiem in D Minor (if you want to hear Mozart’s original piece it is posted below). Below is Mozart’s “Lacrimosa” complete with translation …
We are often asked which conferences we will attend and where. Below is a list for each of us with a link to each event. We all hope to see you in person some time this year. Someone from the agency will be in nine different states and Canada and in all four time zones at some time this year. Steve Laube: Feb 4-7 – Hershey, PA – Writer to Writer Conference March 18-22 – Mt. …
Eternal optimism must be the attitude if one is to survive the roller coaster ride of the publishing business. There seems to be some new change every month if not every week. For example, this past week we got word of three different editors at three different publishers leaving their current position. One shifted to another publisher who is glad to fill a needed role. But that means the current …
