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Production Editor Erica Johnson is on the blog today to talk about book layout, photo selection, and one reason why it’s really ok to watch music videos while at work: Book design and photo selections are shaped by many different choices. Sometimes it’s content-based: what imagery is available for this topic? Is the text taking […]Read more "K-Pop!"

Congratulations to Heather (@HeatherRobison8)! You are the winner of Every Body’s Talking: What We Say Without Words by Donna M. Jackson! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, in honor of both Black […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Today in Minnesota, we’re having some weather. “Yeah, yeah,” you say, “we all have weather every day. Whatevs. And also I have heard enough from you Lerner people about your cold and your snow.” And you’re right, of course. Ten inches of snow in one day is par for the course in a Minnesota winter. […]Read more "Surviving in Cold Places…and FREE downloadable teaching tools"

Hey everyone, Things have been busy here in Lerner Digital land. We’re up to our knees in pixels that need pushing. Hey, speaking of pixels here are some interesting links culled from the finest internets. Enjoy! Lyubov Orlova: Ghost ship carrying cannibal rats ‘could be heading for Britain’  [The Independant] #SochiProblems Is More of An […]Read more "Web Gem Tuesday"

          Presidents’ Day, aka Washington’s Birthday, is a federal holiday observed on the third Monday of February to honor the first president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is in February too, so the holiday, although officially limited to celebrating Washington’s birth, is in the popular mind a nod of recognition to […]Read more "Presidents’ Day 2014"

Congratulations to Jodi Meadows (@jodimeadows)! You are the winner of The Other Way Around by Sashi Kaufman! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. Love is in the air today! But is there an easy […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Valentine’s Body Language Edition!"

Production editor and Olympics fan Leesha Plante is guest blogging today about the Olympic Games and tennis great Maria Sharapova. Here’s Leesha! Last Friday I tuned into the opening ceremonies for the Sochi Games. I was fascinated by all the Russian history and culture that the opening ceremony featured. But I was even more intrigued […]Read more "Amazing Athletes at the 2014 Olympic Games"

I laughingly remember that when asked where I wanted to be, I once told my former boss that I wanted to learn it ALL! At that time, I was a new member of the art dept. Eventually came one or two new MAC computers. Where there used to be an art dept., an editorial dept., […]Read more "All Work and No Play!"

Congratulations to Teresa McKay (@tmckayathome)! You are the winner of our Bombs Over Bikini: The World’s First Nuclear Disaster by Connie Goldsmith from Twenty-First Century Books! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your books in the mail. Want to […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"