The Lerner Blog

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I love the editorial life, but I have to say it has its drawbacks. Like stiff shoulders and hips after a day seated in front of the computer screen or hunched over a paper layout. Or tired eyes from staring at too many profitability reports for too long. […]Read more "Hazards of the Editorial Life"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press This past weekend, the Loft held a Children’s and Young Adult Literature conference. I had a wonderful conversation over lunch with a group of writers—some aspiring, some published—about creativity as it applies to nonfiction. At first blush, nonfiction might seem to require less creativity than fiction. After all, a […]Read more "Nonfiction Monday: Nonfiction, Format, and Creativity"

Blythe Woolston’s Loa has a poem for today. It just so happens that it’s by my favorite poet. Here’s a bit from Woolston’s The Freak Observer: I have to find a poem for English class. The whole class does. We have all been turned loose in the library on a scavenger hunt, an Easter egg […]Read more "“I have to find a poem for English class…”"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press A few years ago, the website www.brianpcleary.com was born. One of the features of this site is POW, the poem of the week. On the site’s main page, you’ll find it on the right-hand side along with WOW, the word of the week. I think that poetry can seem […]Read more "A Website That Packs a POW!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB (Left: the work space of poet Dylan Thomas; CC/Wikimedia) Several years ago, at about this time of year, my sister was describing to me the way that her cockatiel went mad every spring. He generally had the run of her apartment, marching about happily and cooing at her […]Read more "The Green Fuse"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Every year the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts hosts an independent comics convention, known as MoCCA Festival (or, usually, just called MoCCA as well). Held at the 26th Street Armory on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, this year MoCCA had over 400 artists. The mood and market are similar […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Reporting on MoCCA 2010"

Earth Day has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean that we should forget about its significance. In order to help draw attention to Earth Day and to our new Mallory title, Mallory Goes Green, we’ve had a special promotion running during the month of April. The promotion gives visitors to www.mallorymcdonald.com the ability to […]Read more "Last Chance to Read the “Mallory on the Move” E-book Online for Free!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I just had one of our IT guys in my office updating my computer. I keep getting error messages when I try to print stuff, and he did some magic so that the messages no longer appear—at least for now. This reminds me of a wonderfully funny video […]Read more "IT Help Desk—Then and Now"