The Lerner Blog

By Blythe Woolston, author of the forthcoming novel The Freak Observer (Fall 2010): Today I would like to honor Vioalle Hefferan, a citizen scientist whose work assisted in the advance of technology. Vioalle Hefferan wasn’t an engineer, unless a person considers what a feat of engineering it is to inspire dozens of teens to spend […]Read more "Ada Lovelace Day: Guest Blogger Blythe Woolston"

Rebecca L. Johnson (pictured at right) is the author of dozens of award-winning books about science for children and young adults as well as an avid scuba diver. Recent titles with Lerner include Investigating Climate Change and the Microquests series. Her research for the forthcoming Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures (Fall 2010) […]Read more "Ada Lovelace Day: Guest Blogger Rebecca L. Johnson"

By Elizabeth Dingmann, Publicist Sally M. Walker (pictured at right on an archaeological site where she researched her book Written in Bone) is the author of many books, including the Sibert Medal-winning Secrets of a Civil War Submarine. Her research for the forthcoming Frozen Secrets (coming Fall 2010) brought her into contact with explorer and […]Read more "Ada Lovelace Day: Guest Blogger Sally M. Walker"

Well, actually, Lerner author Sandra Markle never met nineteenth-century computer programming pioneer Ada Lovelace—though I suspect she’d have loved to. I’ve got Sandy’s permission to profile her in my blog entry for Ada Lovelace Day, which honors pioneering women in science and technology. Sandra Markle (below right, surrounded by some of her books with Lerner) […]Read more "When Sandra Met Ada…"

By Peg Goldstein, TFCB editor and author I play online Scrabble constantly. The only problem is finding suitable partners. People are so responsible. They say things like, “I’m too busy;” “I have to do my job;” “I have to take my son to the emergency room.” Where are their priorities? If you have a Scrabble […]Read more "Just Busy Enough"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Joanne Lew-Vriethoff is the illustrator of The Punctuation Station. She loves vampires and werewolves, though neither appear in the illustrations for this book. She lives in Amsterdam with her husband and two children. Q: How did you decide to make the main characters in this book a family of […]Read more "The Punctuation Station Q&A with Joanne Lew-Vriethoff"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor I’m a big music fan—and I like all kinds of music. To say the selections on my iPod are eclectic would be an understatement. So when I found out I’d be editing Lerner’s bio on Michael Jackson (cover pictured), I was over the moon. I mean, who’s a bigger figure in […]Read more "MJ"

Broken business models. Deleted buy buttons. The Agency Four. The death of reading. Blah blah. Don’t pity book people. We still know how to have a good time and get some stuff done while we’re at it. Perhaps the best example in my experience of this phenomenon is the Bologna Book Fair, for which I […]Read more "Bologna"