We had two car batteries die in the same month. This video looks like a lot more fun! (Only 47 seconds long.)
“Can you give me a jump?”
Fun Fridays – October 19, 2012
Steve
News You Can Use – October 16, 2012
Is Apple Promoting Original Sin? - Orthodox activists in Russia are objecting to Apple's logo depicting a bite taken out of an apple. They say the image glorifies the sins of Adam and Eve. It is important to note that in the Orthodox tradition "a person experiences the faith in the Orthodox Church through its art and symbols."
The E-mail is Legitimate - I've had clients ask if the email they …
Fun Fridays – Oct. 12, 2012
Baptist Children’s Books
FakeJDGreear and ChurchCurmudgeon had a good time this Summer with their series, Baptist Children’s Books. Too much fun.
(HT: Trevin Wax)
Charlie Spurgeon and the Chocolate Factory
Green Eggs and NAMB (North American Mission Board)
Danny Akin and the Dinosaur
Goodnight Lottie Moon
Chick-Fil-Little: The Biblical Definition of Marriage is Falling
Harry Potter …
News You Can Use – Oct. 9, 2012
Waterbrook Launches Christian Fiction Reader Hub - Check out Novel Crossing a very exciting and dynamic new site for all readers of Christian fiction. To quote their mission statement, the site "is dedicated to bringing Christian fiction readers the latest news, book releases, author commentary and reviews from a range of writers including authors, professional reviewers, fiction book editors and …
News You Can Use – Oct. 2, 2012
Why is the new J.K.Rowling e-book priced at $17.99? - This brief article presents some succinct economic details to help you further understand how this industry works.
Penguin Sues Authors for Advances Paid - There are at least two sides to every story, but this appears to be a number of cases where a writer signed a contract, accepted a sizeable cash advance, and never delivered the …
Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Fiction Merge
by Steve Laube
You may have read about some of the reorganization that has begun after the sale of Thomas Nelson to Harper Collins, which already owned Zondervan. This past week there was a new development that touches the fiction publishing programs. Instead of two separate entities, there will be one fiction division moving forward. Zondervan’s editorial team of Sue Brower and Becky …
Fun Fridays – Sept. 7, 2012
Amazing musical creation by Mike Tompkins doing a cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." Every sound is from Mike.
News You Can Use – September 4, 2012
Amazon Buys 1,000 Backlist titles from Dorchester - As expected Amazon won the bid for defunct publisher Dorchester. Add these to the 3,000 titles they bought from Avalon in July and you have a serious number of romance backlist titles to offer.
Jonah Lehrer's Plagarism Worse than Originally Thought - Charles Seife analyzes numerous "Wired" articles and the Lehrer's blog and discovers a …
Paid Book Reviews?
by Steve Laube You may have read or heard of the NY Times article where an author admitted to using a now-defunct service that wrote positive online reviews for a fee. Unfortunately I was not surprised. There have been many attempts to game the system over the years. One man bought thousands of his books in various locations to launch it onto the NY Times bestseller list (Read a report about it …
News You Can Use – August 28, 2012
The Beloit College Mindset List for 2016 - Read it and weep. You are getting old. Admit it. For example, for the incoming college freshman (born in 1994), - "History has always had its own channel" and "Simba has always had trouble waiting to be King."
How to Create a Perfect Title - Calvin Miller and Rick Warren discussed this issue as it related to their sermons in this article from 1998's …