Hey, you crazy kids! I know it’s been a while since you’ve gotten any updates on what’s happening in the internet, and you’re perhaps a little antsy. It’s totally understandable. But you can relax, I’m back. And I have a pretty good reason for being gone: Oliver James. Born 10/18. 8 lbs, 4 oz. 21.5″. […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 11/20: Thanksgiving Edition"

Congratulations to Mallory Reiber! She is the winner of our brand new  Scientific Rivalries and Scandals series from Twenty-First Century Books valued at more than $130.00! Mallory, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This weekend we’re at NCTE in Las Vegas! Stop by the Lerner Publishing Group booth (#307) for book […]Read more "Free Book Friday and NCTE!"

Do you feel trendy? Language and vocabulary, like so many other parts of life, follow trends over time. You may have noticed, for example, that hipster has come into much more frequent use over the past ten years or so, while gnarly isn’t as fashionable as it once was. In this branch of language evolution, […]Read more "Trendy Language"

Graphic Universe and Lerner participated in a variety of events last week. On Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th the NYC Department of Education 2012 Conference was held at A. Philip Randolph Campus High School at 135th Street in upper Manhattan—a gathering where teachers and librarians attend lectures, presentations and conferences. Educational Publishers like ours (and […]Read more "A Conference, A Graphic Novel Event, and A Comic Book Fest In NYC"

What’s not to like about two grown men in their underwear pretending to hurt each other? Or, as I know it, professional wrestling. My latest book from Lerner, The Main Event, is indeed about that very sport, and for me, it represents the pinnacle of my wrestling and writing career. From the first time I […]Read more "Patrick Jones on The Main Event"

Congratulations to Gloria Wilson! She is the winner of our brand new Great Outdoors Sports Zone series valued at almost $160.00! Gloria, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week for Free Book Friday we are giving one lucky winner our new Scientific Rivalries and Scandals series from Twenty-First […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

As a language lover, I have an irrepressible tendency to not only read the seventy million updates that wend their way across my screen whenever I log into a social networking site but to also ponder the language in said seventy million updates. (Geeky, I know, but really, I can’t stop myself.) The thing that’s caught […]Read more "Here a #, There a #, Everywhere a #"

The whole “big and strong” thing (think Bob Schieffer’s mother) is the message that has stuck in my mind from this year’s round of presidential and vice-presidential debates. And since tomorrow is Election Day, my message is the same as that of Bob Schieffer’s mother: “Go vote. It makes you feel big and strong.” For […]Read more "Voting, It Makes You Feel Big and Strong"