The Lerner Blog

Congratulations to ZB Library (@zblibrary)! You’ve won Traumatic Brain Injury! 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, enter to win the Show Your Character series. Using a question-and-answer format and real-world […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Lerner books follow me everywhere. A few weekends ago I stopped at my local Saint Paul library (yes, the most shocking place to discover a Lerner book…but hear me out) and in the midst of browsing the history section I happened to come across a suspiciously skinny, suspiciously tall volume. My radar immediately told me […]Read more "Look What I Found…"

Hey everyone! We’ve been hard at work getting all of our digital goodies ready for Fall 14. While I can’t talk about our top secret new digital product, I will give you a sneak peek at some of our new Interactive Book offerings! For those of you who are not familiar with our iBooks, they […]Read more "Interactive Books: Fall 14 Sneak Peek"

Congratulations to Amber R.! You’ve won STEM Trailblazer Bios! Please send 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. This week’s free giveaway is Traumatic Brain Injury by Connie Goldsmith, an RN with a master’s degree in health. Two soccer players collide on […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Kirstin Cronn-Mills, winner of this year’s ALA Stonewall Award for her YA novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, will be signing her newest YA nonfiction title, Transgender Lives (TFCB, Fall 2014), at the Lerner Publishing Group booth (#623) at ALA-Las Vegas at the end of this month. Be sure to stop by the booth on […]Read more "Know the T in LGBT"

Congratulations to Kris Cram (@gopher0284)! You’ve won A Matter of Souls! 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 address so we can get your book in the mail. Here’s a series for the engineer wannabes and amateur computer coders. This week’s free giveaway […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

We have sooo many exciting series coming out in Fall 2014, blog readers! One of my favorites is called Entertainment’s Top 10 (cover pictured)—a series that presents lists of the most awesome things happening in four different entertainment categories (Movies and TV, Music and Theater, Sports, and Technology). Now, I don’t want to spoil the […]Read more "Ten Things about Sandy Donovan"

We’re in the home stretch here at Lerner Digital. Lots and lots of new ebooks, interactive books, and…secret mystery books for our new mysteriously secret product. I can’t break away from QA for very long, but I wanted to make sure you got your fix of web gems for the week. Enjoy! The Value of […]Read more "Digital Tuesday: Web Gems!"

For the cover of Carrie Mesrobian’s Perfectly Good White Boy, I had to audition some pretty grungy characters: floors and surfaces in and around the Lerner offices. Lest you think book design is all about glamour. Here are some of the runners up and why they weren’t cast: The oft-trod carpet outside of my office. […]Read more "Auditions for a book cover"