The Lerner Blog

This year’s Digital Book World Conference and Expo may have come and gone, but for those of us whose sole window to that world lay in the pithy Tweets of Lerner VP Terri Soutor, much of its wisdom still remains to be discovered. This week, while compiling the legendary Adriano Fruzzetti Memorial Web Links (don’t worry, […]Read more "A Ponderer’s Digital Potpourri"

If you missed the American Library Association’s presentation of the 2013 Youth Media Awards this morning–and are wondering if Lerner came away with any laurels–wonder no longer. Now that the cheering has died down, some more coherent congratulations are in order….Carolrhoda Lab’s No Crystal Stair, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, is an ALA 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor […]Read more "Bookish Ballyhoo: Lerner at ALA Youth Media Awards"

   (Left: First page of Lincoln’s second inaugural address, March 4, 1865, in his hand. Right: Cover of Lincoln by David Herbert Donald) With the second inauguration of President Barack Obama last week, I happened to be finishing David Herbert Donald’s wonderful biography of Abraham Lincoln, called simply Lincoln. Although Donald quotes liberally from Lincoln’s […]Read more "Writing It Out"

Congratulations to Gloria! You’ve won How Flight Works, our brand-new series from Lerner Publications’ Lightning Bolt Books™ . The books themselves can’t fly, though, so send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll speed them on their way to you. By the time the next Free Book Friday rolls around, it will be February. But our new giveaway isn’t […]Read more "It Wouldn’t Be Friday Without a Free Book (Or Six)!"

Sarah Olmanson, production editor extraordinaire, blogs about famous siblings. Enjoy her super fun piece about sibling love…and rivalry! The NFL conference championship games were held this last weekend. Two teams were left standing after hard-fought victories. And both of those teams are led by Harbaughs. That’s right—this year, for the first time, two brothers are […]Read more "A Little Sibling Love"

We’re honored to lace up the gloves for SLJ’s 2013 Battle of the Books. Our fighter is ready, and so are his corner men. No Crystal Stair likes its chances very much.Read more "In this corner…"

Yesterday morning, Adriano sidled up to my cubicle and presented me with his iPad. As Lerner’s marketing intern, I’m used to this–not because staff members regularly give me expensive gifts, but because I’ve been helping Adriano test out the new batch of Lerner Interactive Books™. After he handed me the iPad, loaded up with a fresh […]Read more "Digital Bonhomie: An Imaginary Conversation with Adriano"

Happy Thesaurus Day, bookworms! (This week’s random fact: Wordsmith Peter Mark Roget was born on January 18, 1779.) We’re delighted/thrilled/tickled to announce that Deirdre Franzen is the winner of Shaking the Foundation: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution from Twenty-First Century Books. Send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail for you! Next […]Read more "Free/Gratis/Complimentary Book Friday! (And Thesaurus Day.)"

(That title is “vs.” as in “compared to,” not as in “battling it out in the UFC cage.” Usually. Hopefully.) One of the most intriguing water-cooler conversations I’ve had in the Lerner editorial department was a couple years ago when a colleague asked me, “Are you a writer or an editor?” This could be a […]Read more "Writer vs. Editor"