The Lerner Blog

By Domenica Di Piazza (Editorial Director, TFCB) and Martha Kranes (Senior Production Editor) My editorial colleague, Martha Kranes, and her family always have exciting projects going on at their home. For example, Martha’s eight-year-old son recently discovered nine caterpillars on a volunteer bronze fennel plant that had come up from last year’s seed in the […]Read more "Butterfly Magic"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Earlier this month on the BookEnds, LLC blog, Jessica talked about style sheets. I’d like to talk a little more about style sheets as they relate to nonfiction. Here at Lerner, text editors put together style sheets for our copy editor/proofreader to refer to. Indexers also refer to the […]Read more "Got Style?"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press If you’re at ALA this weekend, be sure to stop by our booth—number 2311. We can’t promise to bring along our temperate Minnesota weather, but we can promise we’ll have some fabulous new books on hand as well as two great authors and one amazing illustrator. Saturday11:00Brian P. Cleary […]Read more "ALA, Here We Come!"

[Another post from Greg Hunter on another recent editing experience.] Here are 10 things I didn’t know about 2Pac before editing his USA Today Lifeline Biography, which will be available shortly. 1. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. 2. Tupac Amaru, originally the name of an Incan leader, roughly translates to “shining […]Read more "Belated Tupac Shakur Birthday Post"

Author Steve Brezenoff recorded a short podcast with Authors on Tour at BEA, and it just went live. He does a great job of explaining the title of the novel—something that always seems to escape me when I have to do it. Enjoy: http://www.authorsontourlive.com/interviews/BEABrezenoffPodcast.mp3 Download this MP3 – (Right Click) Local indie bookselling institution Magers […]Read more "The voice of the author"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB Remember my post about visiting the High Line elevated walkway (left) in New York City at the end of May? Well, now that I’m back in Minneapolis, it—the High Line—is following me everywhere. For example, the Walker Art Center (right) here in Minneapolis invited Lisa Switkin, lead designer […]Read more "It’s Everywhere!"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press I’ve been following the comments on Roger Sutton’s recent post, “We ARE here to judge, but . . .” with great interest. When is a mistake or factual error in a book (whether nonfiction or fiction) significant enough to warrant pointing it out in a review? And whose fault […]Read more "On Mistakes"

by Anna Cavallo Associate Editor Oil flowing out of the deepwater wellhead on May 11, 2010 Ever since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, I’ve been a little torn. I find the actual and potential effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so heart-wrenching that I can […]Read more "Learning from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill"

Does that title send a shiver down your spine? Especially in light of recent events in the Gulf of Mexico. Good. It probably ought to. One of the most striking things I learned from Sally Walker’s Frozen Secrets is just what a miracle of diplomacy Antarctica is.  A group of treaties first ratified in 1959 […]Read more "Antarctic Oil"