The Lerner Blog

Production Editor Erica Johnson joins us today to talk about one of her favorite recent Graphic Universe books. And also to talk about one of the nice things about living up north: the chance to see the northern lights every once in a while! There was a brighter than usual display last week in Central […]Read more "Books, polar bears, and the northern lights"

Congratulations to Lavada! You are the winner of Believe, Sarah Aronson’s new YA novel from Carolrhoda Lab!! Please send us 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. The air is turning crisp, Friday night lights are burning bright, and both the college and […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, or a free ticket to a smallpox cure, but that just doesn’t stop some people. Which is what makes the history of medical progress so dramatic and, in many cases, so ghastly. If Domenica DiPiazza’s previous post about For the Good of Mankind? The Shameful History […]Read more ""Did You Pay for That?" Free Teaching Resources and Human Medical Experimentation"

  I learned about a woman named Henrietta Lacks from reading Rebecca Skloot’s best-seller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which came out in 2010. Lacks’s cervical cells, harvested at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s without her knowledge or her consent, became the foundation of an incredibly rich line of rapidly reproducing and hardy […]Read more "Primum non nocere ("First do no harm")"

Congratulations to Margaret (@Bindi3010)! She is the winner of Ultimate Fighting: The Brains and Brawn of Mixed Martial Arts by Patrick Jones! Please send us 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 we’re thrilled to give one lucky reader a copy […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

No. 167 on the “What No One Tells You about Being an Editor” list is this: Our job is 60-70% brainstorming. In the case of Lerner Publications, at least, we start brainstorming about books years before they exist. We brainstorm possible content, titles, authors, trim size, strategies for responding to criticism from Rush Limbaugh, you […]Read more "The Secret Art of Brainstorming"

Yes, it is true. You want the goods? I get you the goods. It’s my job. I am the internet Heisenberg, cooking you up those good blue links. Here you go! This physics grad student made a mind-blowing Bohemian Rhapsody cover. This is amazing. Ever thought about curing cancer using a modified salmonella bacterium to […]Read more "More web gems? Is this bizarro blog?"

Enough about me. Everybody knows what text editors do. (Or do you? Tune in later this week to find out.) Let’s talk about what text editors can’t do. Specifically this: So these guys are fighting… …and these girls are fighting… …over the perfect beverage. No. But good guess.They’re actually fightingabout whose cover is best. See […]Read more "Intelligent Design (in Publishing)"

Congratulations to Jerry! He is the winner of The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery by award-winning author Sandra Markle! Please send us 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 we’re jumping into the Octagon to learn all about the […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"