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We’ve been busy.

As I’ve mentioned before, author Steve Brezenoff and and I have been working with a YALSA Galley Group in St. Paul called Teen Know Best to figure out the best way to put a cover on that guy’s book, The Absolute Value of –1 (|-1| for short). We’re almost done. I’ll let  Steve and TKB […]Read more "We’ve been busy."
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A Few of My Favorite Blogs

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor I love blogs. In fact, the number of blogs I read is probably a little ridiculous. I read friends’ blogs. I read family members’ blogs. I read blogs on random subjects that I find personally interesting. And then there are the blogs I read for work. It keeps me pretty busy. […]Read more "A Few of My Favorite Blogs"
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Happy 60th Birthday, Kerlan Collection!

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press This weekend, I attended a celebration commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Irvin Kerlan, a University of Minnesota graduate, worked as chief of medical research for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. He began collecting children’s books after […]Read more "Happy 60th Birthday, Kerlan Collection!"
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Working with Sandra Markle

[I asked Marcia Marshall, a veteran nonfiction editor on our staff, to talk about her long collaboration with Sandra Markle.] I started thinking about how long Sandra Markle and I have worked together. On my disorganized bookshelves, I found the first title we did together: Exploring Winter, published in 1984. Sandy did the black-and-white line […]Read more "Working with Sandra Markle"
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Put down that screwdriver

I’m kind of surprised that there hasn’t been more blogosphere discussion of the article called The Defiant Ones in The New Yorker of a couple weeks ago. It’s a piece about picture books and well worth reading (even though it’s more about parenting ultimately than about books). There was one particular facet of the author’s […]Read more "Put down that screwdriver"
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Judging Book Covers

[I’ve again asked Jon Fishman to comment on his experiences with Lerner Books UK.] Creating covers might be the most high-stakes part of book publishing. Although we’ve all heard that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, we do anyway. The cover is what catches the eye (or doesn’t), it’s what makes a person […]Read more "Judging Book Covers"
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On Writers, Books, and Such

Writing and publishing seem to attract more than their fair share of commentary. And much of it, unsurprisingly, gets written down and published. Just for fun, I’ve gathered a few of my favorite literary quotations. If you have any favorites, please add them to the comments! My favorite literary quote comes from Flannery O’Connor, the […]Read more "On Writers, Books, and Such"