The Lerner Blog

What’s not to like about two grown men in their underwear pretending to hurt each other? Or, as I know it, professional wrestling. My latest book from Lerner, The Main Event, is indeed about that very sport, and for me, it represents the pinnacle of my wrestling and writing career. From the first time I […]Read more "Patrick Jones on The Main Event"

Congratulations to Gloria Wilson! She is the winner of our brand new Great Outdoors Sports Zone series valued at almost $160.00! Gloria, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week for Free Book Friday we are giving one lucky winner our new Scientific Rivalries and Scandals series from Twenty-First […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

As a language lover, I have an irrepressible tendency to not only read the seventy million updates that wend their way across my screen whenever I log into a social networking site but to also ponder the language in said seventy million updates. (Geeky, I know, but really, I can’t stop myself.) The thing that’s caught […]Read more "Here a #, There a #, Everywhere a #"

The whole “big and strong” thing (think Bob Schieffer’s mother) is the message that has stuck in my mind from this year’s round of presidential and vice-presidential debates. And since tomorrow is Election Day, my message is the same as that of Bob Schieffer’s mother: “Go vote. It makes you feel big and strong.” For […]Read more "Voting, It Makes You Feel Big and Strong"

Congratulations to @tchrben! He is the winner of Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World by Sally M. Walker and Dr. Douglas Owsley! @tchrben please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week, just in time for hunting season, one lucky winner will receive our brand new Great Outdoors […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

I’ve been traveling a lot the past few weeks, and part of those travels took me to my home state of South Dakota. While there, I had the chance to catch up with classmates, a couple of whom are teachers in small town public schools. Education funding is lean in SD. By lean, I mean […]Read more "The SLJ Leadership Summit and a Trip to South Dakota"

In keeping with the major storm that just brought so much havoc to the east coast, I thought I’d touch briefly on how comics, in one form or another, have informed us about the subject of hurricanes. In vivid fashion, you can discover the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated graphic novel and webcomic series A.D.: New Orleans After […]Read more "Comic Books and Hurricanes: A Brief Sampler"

Q: Name a spooky holiday coming up that DOESN’T start with H. A: If you said Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, you’re correct! We published Daniela’s Day of the Dead as part of our Cloverleaf Books—Fall and Winter Holidays set this fall. Daniela is a young girl who misses her grandfather. […]Read more "A Spooky Time of Year"