The Lerner Blog

I had the opportunity to talk to the students at the Hamline University’s low residency MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. It’s a new-ish program, but it’s off to a fantastic start with a great faculty and great students. It was a real pleasure to be involved. One of the things I talked […]Read more "The Cocktail Party"

Last Wednesday I mentioned our new title Kung Fu Masters. This past weekend was the Asian American ComiCon (AACC) at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan, where Kung Fu Masters artist Alitha E. Martinez had a table in “artist’s alley.” Author Evonne Tsang is also local, so she and I and a handful […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Taking the zombies to a con"

This past year, I had the pleasure of working with the company’s founder, Harry Lerner, on his memoir. I had been bugging him to write it since 2006, because the company’s 50th anniversary was coming up in 2009. I KNEW it would take a lot of nudging to get him going, and boy was I […]Read more "Working on a Memoir"

I started my career at Lerner Publishing Group as the company proofreader, way back in the early 1990s. The tools of the trade in those days were a red pen and lots of pencils. Okay, and some erasers too. In the digital twenty-first century, as editorial director of the TFCB imprint, I’m at the computer […]Read more "A Foot in the Door"

Working with Brian P. Cleary on his many books is a great deal of fun for me as an editor. As anyone who has seen him speak at a conference or school knows, he is just as funny in person as he is on the printed page. For those of you who haven’t yet had […]Read more "25+1 Random Things about Brian P. Cleary"

I’m happy to be off to ALA for part of the annual conference in Chicago. I’m especially excited to talk with authors and illustrators I’ve never met face-to-face, including Greg Christie, illustrator of Bad News for Outlaws, and Rebecca and Donald Wojahn, authors of the Follow That Food Chain series. I’m also looking forward to […]Read more "ALA 2009"

I’m a longtime Lerner/TFCB staffer—first in-house and then freelance. Domenica invited me to write an entry to give a little bit of the insider’s view. I work from my home office, which makes for a short commute. Sometimes I go out to the driveway and then back in to pretend I’m walking to work. The […]Read more "Insider’s View from Peg G."

Known around the office as DDIP, I’ve been an editorial director with Lerner Publishing Group for more than ten years. Initially, I worked across a wide range of imprints and age groups, all the way from Sandra Markle’s Animal Predators series in the Lerner Publications imprint to the Graphic Myths and Legends series in our […]Read more "Introducing Domenica Di Piazza"

In the television series Heroes—a strange, scenery-chewing show, check your local listings—two guys from Japan, lost in the Midwest, hope to find clues to a mystery of world-shattering ramifications in a comic book that predicts the future. They head into the local comics shop with confidence the latest issue will be waiting, because there’s one […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Making zombies safe for kids"