Hope you have a great Thanksgiving next week!
Fun Fridays
Fun Fridays – November 7, 2014
I cannot handle spicy food so I won’t be trying this at home. But I wonder what this would look like if you, as a writer, tried this while writing a particularly emotional scene for your book? Could you get through it without stopping? These amazing musicians from the Danish National Chamber Orchestra gave it their best. Thank you to Trissina Kear for the tip!
Let’s Be Creative and Have Fun with Book Titles!
Steve Laube shared this hilarious thought from quirkbooks.com in our agency phone call last week: What if your favorite books were Halloween Candy? Such as… Mounds of the Baskervilles Oliver Twix Almond Joy Luck Club The Fault in our Starburst So with Halloween just past, and all the candy now on sale, I thought it would be fun to come up with our own titles using Halloween candy. So here are the …
Fun Fridays – October 31, 2014
This hilarious video is the perfect illustration of the writer’s life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efg6w-X5ow Thanks to Trissina Kear (our daughter) for the tip!
Fun Fridays – October 17, 2014
Funny how certain plots seem familiar to each other. Today’s video reveals the secret!
Fun Fridays – Sept. 26, 2014
Did you know that cats really do talk like this? But only when humans are not around to hear them. It’s true. I saw it on the Internet. Thanks to my daughter Fiona for showing me this one!
Book Concepts That Will Never Sell
As a public service to our agency clients and the general Christian publishing industry (but mostly because it is a real drag being serious all the time) here are some book concepts that will never sell. Don’t even bother trying to develop them. I Never Knew You: Depressing Bible Verses The Dog that Returned to His Vomit: A Bible Story for All Ages The Eglon Diet: The Purpose Driven Knife …
Fun Friday – Aug. 29, 2014
A Sign Language interpretation of the hit song “Happy.” Created and produced by deaf campers at the 2014 Deaf Film Camp in New York. The camp is dedicated to deaf and hard-of-hearing teens with an interest in filmmaking. This video should indeed make you feel “happy.”