Did any of you readers out there love coming up with moneymaking ideas when you were a kid? I know I did. I’ve blogged before about my adventures with a babysitting business. I also once helped start a neighborhood newspaper, and my cofounders and I actually collected quite a bit of money from our publication. […]Read more "For the Young Entrepreneur"

Photo Editor Manager Cynthia Zemlicka today shares the blog post you all know you wanted to: LOC cats!  It looks like I have case of the Mondays. What else can I do but share images of cats from the Library of Congress for today’s blog post. This photo is titled “Silvester child with Buzzer the […]Read more "LOC Cats!"

Congratulations to Cathy Potter (@cppotter)! You’ve won When Lunch Fights Back! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Beetle Boy by Margaret Willey, a story of a lost childhood with […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

I hope you’re enjoying your summer! Perhaps you’ve been camping or hiking, in which case you might be coming across animal tracks of various kinds. Does your family or do your students ever wonder what kinds of animals made which tracks? What kind of question is that? you might be asking. Of course they do! […]Read more "Tracking wild animals and FREE teaching materials"

One of my favorite topics at author conferences–and one of the few things I feel qualified to advise authors on, really–is helping authors understand what their work is about over the span of a career, regardless of trends, audience, or any other externalities. If an author knows what she cares about and what her work […]Read more "Old magazines, experienced authors, and the long view"

Kirstin Cronn-Mills talks about writing Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices (TFCB/Fall 2014) on her blog. Take a look to hear about the delights and complexities of the writing process. At left is her friend and colleague Alex Nelson reading the book. Note how you can see his reflection in the book cover!Read more "Learn, Grow, Support"

Congratulations to Randall Bonser (@rbwritenow)! You’ve won Knockout Games! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Rebecca L. Johnson’s When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses, an up-close […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

The editorial department at Lerner has a company-wide reputation for producing lots of babies. A little more than a year ago, when I transitioned from an internship in the marketing department to my shiny new job as an editor, I was warned not to drink the water on the third floor, as there seemed to […]Read more "It Takes a Village: Why Books Are Like Children"

There are few pleasures in bookmaking greater than that moment when you’re paginating a picture book text, and suddenly it all clicks. I have no idea how others do it, but I make a 40 page Word document (so I can include ends—hence the “[pasted down endsheet]” tag shown above). Then, I dump in the […]Read more "The pleasures of pagination"