The Lerner Blog

by Robyn Chapman,NY Editorial Assistant I love a good mystery, and here at Graphic Universe we have two lady detectives on the scene. There is the bookish guinea pig, Sasspants (or Detective Pants, as she does NOT prefer to be called)… …and the hip haikuist Megan Yamamura… I have a feeling both of them would […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Remembering Anne Francis"

On behalf of Blythe and all the YA sympathizers here at Carolrhoda Lab, thank you for making our year. Because I love to see where things started, I dug this up: Around sixteen months later, here we are. I’m speechless (and those who know me know how rare that is).Read more "Thank you, William C. Morris YA Debut Award Committee…"

For some reason, I’m unusually inclined to see parallels to editorial decision making in baseball, particularly in the early off season (so-called “hot stove” season) when general managers are bidding on free agents and making trades and then later in the winter, when the Baseball Hall of Fame balloting happens. Baseball is a hugely emotional […]Read more "Deciding what’s good"

In today’s fast-paced world of Facebook, Twitter, and social media you need to have a website that makes life easy for your customers. Well, we are proud to say that after months and months of hard work the all new http://www.lernerbooks.com is up and running. The site is also getting rave reviews from our customers […]Read more "Loving Our New Website"

by Robyn Chapman, NY Editorial Assistant It’s that time of year again! The year-end reviews are out, and Graphic Universe left its mark on 2010. Here is your handy guide to the best-of-the-best. Guinea PIG, Pet Shop Private Eye: Hamster and Cheese was a big winner this year! It was listed in the prestigious 2010 […]Read more "GU Comics Day: The Best of 2010"

By Diana Childress, TFCB author Call me an escapist. I love travel. And when I can’t go to distant places, I love delving into books about faraway people and places and imagining myself there. There’s a big bonus to such “armchair travel”: when you go by book instead of airplane, you can journey through time […]Read more "Long Ago and Far Away"

Robyn Chapman here, editorial assistant at Graphic Universe. Like the rest of New York, my neighborhood was hit hard by the blizzard. Here was the view outside my Brooklyn apartment yesterday morning. Blizzard or not, I had to venture out. I am cat-sitting for several families in Queens, and those cats were hungry. I made […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Blizzard Trekkers"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB (Above, from left to right: Muffin, Finna, Miko) (Above: lioness and her cubs in the Okavango Delta region of northern Botswana) My father and I are both crazy about cats. He has two, and I have three (see top photo above). He called the other day to tell […]Read more "2011: Year of the Cat, Sort Of"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press You might think that editors are all spelling experts. While I can brag that I won the sixth grade spelling bee at my (very small) elementary school, I’m not an exceptional speller. The truth is that good copyeditors and proofreaders catch spelling errors every day (not everyday) and make […]Read more "Words I’ve Learned to Spell Thanks to My Job"