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Let’s Be Creative and Have Fun with Book Titles!

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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 guidelines:

  • Use well-known book titles, general market and Christian market
  • Replace some word in the title with an appropriate candy name

Here are my contributions:

The Five Dove Languages

Of Ice Cubes and Men

War and Reeses Pieces

Your turn!

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Book Concepts That Will Never Sell

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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 …

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How To Stumble Onto Your Brand…

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Erin Taylor Young has a remarkable gift for making her readers laugh out loud even as she’s delivering hard truths about living a life of faith. Her down-to-earth writing style invites readers into the books that God has given her and sends them away refreshed and assured that we’re not in this gig alone. Her first humorous nonfiction, Surviving Henry: Adventures in Loving a Canine …

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Laube Agency Signs Saul of Tarsus

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(Phoenix, Arizona) Steve Laube, founder of the Steve Laube Agency announced today that the agency has signed Saul of Tarsus to write in various Christian book categories starting with his debut release in Fall 2014.  Saul will be writing under the pen name of Paul, a name with special meaning to the author, given him after a dramatic personal experience several years ago while on an international …

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What’s Another Word for Thesaurus?

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On this last day of 2013, I think the best use of this space is to offer up my favorite quotes related to books, writing or from authors. Without further delay from the fun, here they are:

"What's another word for thesaurus?" (Steven Wright)

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two." (George Burns)

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, …

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Decoding Publishing Terms

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I looked back some of my Tuesday blog posts and thought I might be getting too serious, so I wanted to lighten it up a bit with some practical, helpful information that should help you navigate and understand the complicated world of publishing.

Here are words you might hear in relation to publishing or describing a particular book and its real meaning:

“A must-read” – Acquisitions editor …

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My Amazing Fake Day

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I've been intrigued by some blogs and articles about how Facebook makes people depressed because everyone else's lives seem so perfect. I hope that no one thinks the sum of my life is reflected in two recent Facebook posts that my uncle killed a bear on our family farm in Southern Virginia and here in Northern Virginia, we are host a family of walking stick bugs. I took great comfort in the …

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