The Lerner Blog

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I’ve had my head in the clouds lately, reading a lot of material about outer space. It’s galaxies and nebulae that particularly intrigue me, and I recently learned that you can easily pick out the Orion Nebula in the sword of the Orion constellation just below the three […]Read more "NIGHT SKY"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press I am trying to forgive Greg for blogging about the website I Write Like before I had a chance to get to it. I can totally come up with another topic for a blog post on the spur of the moment. No hard feelings, though, really. Moving on . […]Read more "I Write Like, the Sequel"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor I thought I’d use my post today to reveal an editing secret I’ve discovered. (Well, OK … it’s not that much of a secret. I alluded to it once in this post already. And also, it wasn’t me who discovered it. A wise editor I worked with in the past shared […]Read more "A Trick of the Trade"

I mean, you probably already do read Read Roger if you’re reading this. But in case you missed it, I think there are some interesting comments (not just mine) on Roger’s excellent “The best of all possible worlds” post last week (points for Voltaire reference amid all the Mockingjay hubbub). My comments are pretty clear, […]Read more "Read Roger!"

by Connie Goldsmith [Note from Domenica Di Piazza, TFCB editorial director: I invited Connie Goldsmith to write a little about her three titles in our new USA TODAY Health Reports series, which is part of our Fall 2010 TFCB lineup.] [Connie, left, at Lake Tahoe, with sun hat, sunscreen, and clean hands] My critique partners […]Read more "Lesson Learned: Wash Your Hands!"

“Most kids today hear about the Underground Railroad, but this other thing has gone unnoticed,” said Mr. Ramsey. “It just fell on me, really, to tell the story.” The New York Times has an interesting piece about playwright Calvin Ramsey’s “The Green Book” and the history behind it. The article also mention’s his  picture book, […]Read more "A Carolrhoda picture book in the New York Times"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press After art lasers, prepress lasers, and 43-wides comes the 4-print. The term 4-print comes from the machine that outputs the proof, the Iris 4-print Proofer. (As with the 43-wide, this is no longer the machine we actually use to make the proofs.) The high-resolution PDF used to create the […]Read more "Stages of Production Part IV: 4-prints"

[Another post from now associate editor Greg Hunter.] Next week is Ray Bradbury Week in Los Angeles, in which the author’s ninetieth birthday (August 20) kicks off a series of Bradbury-related film screenings. None of which I’ll attend, being located in Minneapolis, but thanks to the Internet, I feel as though I’ve already experienced the […]Read more "Celebrating Literature in Public"

I don’t do this often, so I hope you’ll allow me a bit of a rant. I am not a Seth Godin fan. It’s not personal. It’s probably got less to do with whether Godin knows what he’s talking about and more to do with that we are in very different parts of the publishing […]Read more "Warning: Industry wonkery ahead."