What if your church worship service was announced like a professional basketball game?
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Fun Fridays – August 15, 2025
Don’t tell me you haven’t done this with your own books. I’ll admit that after leaving a bookstore, my clients tend to have their books face-out. (I do not recommend moving books around! Publishers pay good money for product placement, and the poor booksellers have enough to worry about.) (If you can’t see the video in your newsletter feed, please click through to our site …
Fun Fridays – March 1, 2024
Contracts can be confusing. Enjoy this wisdom from Chico and Groucho Marx (from their movie made in 1935; some things never change):
Fun Fridays – February 23, 2024
You can write today’s date as 2, 23, 24 … Two. Two three. Two Four. It’s almost like a countdown to a song, which brings me to today’s “fun.” This week, I was talking with a friend about a book title that describes so much of our Christian life. It is titled My Almost for His Highest (a satire on the famous Oswald Chambers book). Then, she sent a list of …
Labor Day Holiday
Today the U.S. celebrates Labor Day as a national holiday. It’s a perfect day to make and eat popcorn, a favorite snack! Enjoy this insightful video with the Muppets Swedish chef attempting to make enough for everyone.
Fun Fridays – September 2, 2022
Tomorrow is International Bacon Day! Celebrate the bacon! A few years ago, there was a fun online thread with creative people replacing movie titles or book titles with the word bacon. For example: The Lion, the Witch, and the Bacon Pretty in Bacon Harry Potter and the Goblet of Bacon Eat, Bacon, Love The Lord of the Bacon So I thought, “Why not apply the same to bestselling Christian …
21 Latin Phrases Every Writer Should Know
21 Latin Phrases Every Writer Should Know Persona Non Grata “An unwelcome person” (lately defined, by some, as a literary agent). Habeas Corpus “You have the body” (the legal right to appear before a judge). Cogito Ergo Sum “I think, therefore I am.” For a writer it would be “Scribo ergo sum.” Deus Ex Machina “God from the Machine.” In a novel it basically means the author has written something …
Singing the Slushpile Blues
by Steve Laube
The unsolicited pile of proposals in my office (aka "the slushpile) taunts me every day.
"Come over here!" it says, tantalizing me with immanent possibilities. I say to myself, "Maybe it will be the next one I look at. That will be 'The One.'"
I've been told that many of you enjoy hearing some of the offbeat letters or intriguing proposals I see. Here is a sampling from …
Fun Fridays – January 24, 2020 – Puns for Lexophiles
No. These are not original. But they are delightful to read again!
Do you have any you can add?
A Little Bit of Fun for Lexophiles (Lover of Words)
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?
He's all right now.
The roundest knight …