by Assistant | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog, Getting Published, Guest Posts, Tips, Writing
As an agent, I spend a lot of time reading and evaluating the projects that show up in my inbox. Most of the submissions I receive are good—a lot of them even great—but I don’t have the capacity to say yes to everything. So I’ve developed a series of tools I can use...
by Assistant | Dec 11, 2017 | Getting Published, News, Writing
Steve Laube, president of The Steve Laube Agency, has announced the acquisition of the Leslie H. Stobbe Literary Agency. Les Stobbe has been a part of the Christian publishing industry for 62 years, starting as an editor and book buyer, then publisher, book coach,...
by Assistant | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog, Writers' Conference, Writing
I love Christian writers’ conferences! I attended my first one in the late 1980s at Biola University in La Mirada, California. I’d been helping a friend prepare for the conference, which she was directing, and she said I’d helped so much I could attend for free if I...
by Kathy Ide | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
Light-colored locks framed an oval face with serious eyes and lips closed tightly as if she held a secret. The photograph found in Agatha Christie: A Reader’s Companion captured a momentary expression, one of many that painted the face of this well-known...