The Lerner Blog

Some of my favorite comics, the ones a seek out and treasure most, are published in small batches by individual artists, rather than traditional publishing houses. These kinds of comics are often called mini comics, or more broadly indy comics. Since the Underground Comix movement began in the late sixties, there has been a community […]Read more "Kids’ Comics in the Indy Press"

1. Pull together ideas for annual editorial brainstorming session tomorrow. 2. Write TFCB blog entry. 3. Catch up on e-mail. 4. Print out materials for this week’s acquisitions meeting. 5. Do last-minute fix to a book that goes live for Fall 2011 on July 1. 6. Write TFCB blog entry! 7. Review Prologue and Chapter […]Read more "To Do List"

Now that the official beginning of summer is upon us, my thoughts turn to baseball, that most summertime (summery? summerish?) of sports. I’ve gotten a reasonably good baseball education since starting to work here. I’ve spent quality time with Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron, Ichiro Suzuki, and Derek Jeter, among others. Of […]Read more "Books and Baseball"

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been employing muscles in new ways while occasionally riding a bike to or from work, dismayed that having been a runner for years has apparently done nothing for my bike-riding muscles. (Conversely, biking does seem to fatigue my running muscles, which seems altogether unfair.) And then, because I’ve been […]Read more "And Now I Will Thankfully Hop in My Car"

I’m a bit torn about whether to write any more about the infamous Cox Gurdon WSJ piece, but there is a strain in her argument that offends me (and I think should offend and trouble many authors and fellow editors), and I don’t see enough rebuttal amidst the #yasaves. In the original piece, she wrote: […]Read more "The audience is not an abstraction."

Who doesn’t like hot and hunky vampires? Starting today a preview of My Boyfriend Bites will be serialized on the My Boyfriend is a Monster website. New pages will be uploaded on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Take a look at this fun and quirky take on current monster craze. A preview of I Love Him […]Read more "A First Taste of My Boyfriend Bites"

With summer truly upon us, and a new fashion series soon to launch in the TFCB imprint, I’ve been thinking a lot about…eyewear. The New York Times had a small piece in last Thursday’s Style section about the Oliver Goldsmith sunglasses that Audrey Hepburn wore in the 1961 film version of Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast […]Read more "It’s All about the Eyewear"

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the novelty of being able to simply add a page at will to a vaguely described “new digital offering.” I’m very excited that I can now share a little more. Last fall, we published the book Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures by Rebecca L. Johnson. […]Read more "An App Is Born"

Earlier this week, I found myself remembering the events from more than 60 years ago in northern France. I refer to, of course, D-Day. What springs to my mind is a long-ago coach (read: bus) adventure with a chum while I was living in England. Judy had received two free ferry and coach tickets to […]Read more "Remembering D-Day"