{"id":6872,"date":"2017-12-04T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2017-12-04T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:29:56","slug":"a-new-chapter-in-my-thankfulness-for-les-stobbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2017\/12\/04\/a-new-chapter-in-my-thankfulness-for-les-stobbe\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter In My Thankfulness For Les Stobbe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Les<\/a>I began writing MERLIN’S BLADE<\/strong> in 2006 and finished it in 2008. I thought I was done, but I was far from it\u00a0as thirteen more drafts of the novel awaited as well as the unenviable task of cutting it down by over 45,000 words … almost 1\/3!<\/p>\n

And patience.<\/strong>\u00a0 I needed patience.\u00a0 Because it took until 2011 to find an agent who would sign me on, and that agent was Les Stobbe<\/strong>, a veteran of the Christian book industry. I was amazed when it only took him a month to get Zondervan’s editorial board to approve the trilogy and pass it up to the Publisher’s Board. This is what\u00a0I wrote in the back of MERLIN’S BLADE:<\/p>\n

To Les Stobbe, my agent beyond extraordinaire\u2014you have accomplished a miracle and my thanks will always be with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today Les announced <\/strong>that he has decided to retire from being a literary agent. Thankfully he sums up the change this way: “I’m looking forward to what God has in mind for me as writer, writing coach, and title development specialist. It’s been great to be in God’s work all my life.”<\/p>\n

So what now?\u00a0 <\/strong>This is not only a new chapter for Les, it is a new chapter for me. The good news is that Les has sold his agency to Steve Laube<\/strong>.\u00a0 This means that I have been assigned to one of Steve’s agents, in particular Bob Hostetler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And there is a common bond among us four<\/strong> … in some manner or other all of us have been touched by and worked for Cru (formerly Campus Crusade For Christ): Les heading up the ministry’s Here’s Life Publishers, Steve being on their board of directors, Bob co-writing books with Josh McDowell, and myself coming to Christ through the ministry as well as being a volunteer and on staff with them.<\/p>\n

So, there are new beginnings all around, and I look forward to seeing what comes of this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\nI began writing MERLIN’S BLADE in 2006 and finished it in 2008. I thought I was done, but I was…\n<\/div>\n
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