The Lerner Blog

Happy Friday! First, congratulations to Leah Clarke, who’s won Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature by Sashi Kaufman. Leah, email your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. We’re running a Goodreads giveaway of The Stand-In this week—click on the link below to enter for a chance to win one of five copies. […]Read more "Free Book Friday: The Stand-In"

Editors spend their days talking about books. But usually conversations in the office don’t start with, “I just read the most fascinating book.” They’re often more like, “Did you ever figure out that photo caption in that book about extinct fish?” or “Can you sign off on that final proof so this book can go […]Read more "What We’re Reading"

Special thanks to Spencer Hanson for the following post! How libraries incorporate eBooks into their established print collections has been an ongoing experiment. It has only been since 2010 that a significant amount of school libraries have started offering eBooks. The Sixth Annual Survey of eBook Usage in U.S. School (K-12) libraries found the percentage […]Read more "Balancing Digital and Print in Library Collections"

TFCB nonfiction writer Kirstin Cronn-Mills is excited about the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. She says: The best athletes in the world are gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ready to do battle for the honor of a lifetime. For more than forty of these athletes, the prestige of competing in the world’s biggest sporting event […]Read more "Out and Proud at Rio Olympics 2016!"

I’ve never liked the phrase “getting kids to read.” And yes, I’m a children’s book editor. Cue the gasps! But before you leave a comment asking if I’ve lost it, please let me explain: To me, this phrase sounds like a coercion—as if reading isn’t something that’s naturally fun and that kids might actually choose […]Read more "Why I’m Over “Getting Kids to Read”"

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Christina Taylor (@cetaylor05), who’s won LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field. Christina, please send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com so we can get your book in the mail. Today we’re giving away a copy of Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature by Sashi Kaufman. Ben Wireman is partially deaf and completely insecure. The only two […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature"

Caren Stelson is the author of Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story, which will be released on October 1, 2016. The book tells the story of Sachiko Yasui, who was six years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki where she lived. While Caren was doing research for Sachiko, she came across the […]Read more "The Return of the Sword: Guest Post by Author Caren Stelson"

Special thanks to Kris Vetter for the following post! Some of you may have seen my previous post about how print books and digital books are not at war. At the end of this post, I noted that Lerner’s entire Fall 2016 list will be available in print, pdf, epub, and mobi formats. This was […]Read more "Reaching Readers Wherever They May Be"

Did you know that suicide is the second-leading cause of death–after accidents–for young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four? Girls are twice as likely to attempt suicide as boys, yet boys are four times more likely to die from suicide than are girls. Family history, substance abuse, physical and/or psychological violence, bullying, LGBTQ […]Read more "Suicide Awareness"