Having played so many pickup games I found this absolutely hilarious! Someday I get to be “the old guy” in this video. Enjoy.
— Steve
Fun Fridays – August 23, 2013
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Back to School for You
by Steve Laube
I'm of the generation that remembers the day after Labor Day being the first day of school. But no more. All through August kids of all ages have been headed back to the classroom. When our daughters were in Marching Band they had rehearsals on the field twice a day, starting two weeks before school began...which put their practices into the month of July...in …
Fun Fridays – August 16, 2013
An Irish language version of the song "Cups." What fun!
Never forget, our art can become International.
Fun Fridays – August 9, 2013
Watch this fun performance of twelve pianists playing at the same time - it could have been called "Piano for 24 hands." There is a metaphor here. This performance is a bit like the publishing experience. If you look closely you can see editorial, sales, marketing, and some booksellers all working from the same page of music. Music written by an author who is not on the stage!
Fun Fridays – July 26, 2013
Collective Nouns
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to add to this list I found on the Internet for two things. A _______of Editors and A________of Agents.
Put your answers in the comments and have fun!
1. Business of Ferrets
2. Labor of Moles
3. Mustering of Storks
4. Shrewdness of Apes
5. Gam of Whales
Fun Fridays – July 19, 2013
This is a fun cover of a popular song. The unfortunate thing is that the chorus is one of those that sticks in your head...all day. But to make it worse the lyrics of the chorus could be the anthem song for either publishers or bookstores. Listen yourself to see if you agree (you can skip the part where the arranger begins talking at the end):
News You Can Use – July 16, 2013
Yesterday I posted on the issue of “Foreign Rights.” Talk about a clunker of a topic! One quarter of the normal readership thought it worthwhile to click through and read. Fascinating analytics. So let me ask those who read this “News” section, what topics would you like to see addressed in the future?
JK Rowling Snookered a Lot of Editors – She submitted her latest novel under a pen name. This …
Fun Fridays – July 12, 2013
Watch this 4 minute video and then save it. You may need to show it to someone in 20 years who is unsure.
"How to Read a Book" - a delightful reminder of why we work so hard to do what we do in this business.
This video is the work of Hilary Commer, and she made it for her Intro to Visual Media class at Abilene Christian University.
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News You Can Use – July 9, 2013
Does Your Title Pass the "Radio Test" - This means, if your book title or web site address is read out loud on the radio, will the listener know how to spell it when they go to find it? For example, my last name is spelled Laube and pronounced Lobby. That does not pass the "radio test." So I now own stevelobby.com and point it to www.stevelaube.com just in case someone misspells my name.
The …
Summerside Press Shuts Down
by Steve Laube
“Another one bites the dust.” This past week Guideposts announced they were discontinuing all new acquisitions of titles for both their Summerside Press (fiction) and Guideposts Books (non-fiction) trade lines. To have a complete picture of what this means we first have to understand that there are FIVE different book publishing programs under Guideposts. Two of them are …