In celebration of the birth of our first grandchild last week (Caleb!) I bring you a YouTube favorite: “Puppies and a Baby!” The combination should bring a smile to your face.
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The Joy of the Love Story
Sometimes readers will tell me they don’t understand why anyone would enjoy genre romance novels. Sometimes they’ll even grimace and shudder. I can tell you a couple of reasons why these are such great books: They Make Sense Some books don’t make sense. If you read book reviews, you’ll see that a plot not making sense is a frequent complaint. As for everything making sense, perhaps my faith (or …
Style Sheet: Don’t Let Your Manuscript Leave Home Without It
Okay, everyone sing it with me… “We’ve got trouble, folks. “Right here in Laube City. “With a capital T and that rhymes with E and that stands for EDITOR!” Ah, the joys of being edited. How often have you received a manuscript back from an editor only to find that this person changed elements of your manuscript that never should have been changed? That she “corrected” terminology specific to an …
Not Going My Way?
In case you haven’t noticed, things in the world are generally not going the Christian-way in politics, law, education, business, marriage, religion…or anything else. Evil seems to winning all around us. American Christians who once thought of themselves as the “moral majority” are now the “imperfect minority.” We thought we could change the world through the ballot box. We were wrong. Call it …
Fun Fridays – Oct. 30, 2015
Dressing up your poor dog and taking a photo? Priceless. (No that is not our dog. We have a cat. But on Halloween we tell people she is a dog in disguise.)
Tell Us All the Gossip!
Sometimes writers hear wild, wild gossip about the industry. Sometimes that gossip is true. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is halfway true. As your agent, I want to hear it! You might say, “Wait a minute! Aren’t you a Christian agent? Doesn’t the Bible say not to gossip?” Yes. And yes. But I need to hear this gossip. Not because I love to gossip. I don’t. I don’t have time. For one thing, I …
Lessons from Halloween
(First, one ground rule: This blog isn’t about, nor is it the forum for, either the debate on the origins of Halloween and whether or not Christians should celebrate it, or for the magic vs. no magic issue. Okay, on with the blog…) I used to love Halloween. Loved helping my mom decorate the house and make popcorn balls, the treat she always gave out to costumed munchkins at the door. Which …
Meet Your Reader
Every year a report or article appears in the media that show how the youth of our world don’t know very much. They are not speaking of ignorance as in stupidity, but in “not knowing” things simply because they have no first hand experience. Beloit College in Wisconsin has a running list going well into the future of things that college freshman know, or don’t know. A link to …
Does Anybody Read Books Anymore?
This past Thursday the Barna Group released the results of their survey called “The State of Books and Reading in a Digital World.” Feel free to click through to read the report yourself. Meanwhile there are a few observations of my own. Confirms What We Already Know About Gender For the entire 34 years I’ve been in the book industry we’ve concluded that women buy more books than men. The survey …