Writer Felicity Britton hails originally from Down Under and is a longtime citizen of the United States—and an enthusiastic Gleek.  She wrote The Glee Cast: Inspiring Gleek Mania for TFCB’s Fall 2012 USAT Lifeline series. I have to say it’s one of my favorite Lifelines to date, in part because of Felicity’s nose for the […]Read more "GLEE—A Note from Down Under"

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Lerner Books Blog has a brand new look! Don’t worry, all of your favorite bloggers and giveaways (including Free Book Friday) are still here. Everything just looks a little better! This week for Free Book Friday, two lucky fans will win A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, […]Read more "New Blog Look and Free Book Friday"

Hi, everyone! Today, I’ve asked our summer intern, Laura Zats, to tell us a bit about her experiences here at Lerner. As an intern in the editorial department of a publishing house, you would think that English would be the most useful course of study for me to have followed. Imagine my surprise when I […]Read more "Do Your College Courses Apply to Your Internship?"

The Olympic Games have me thinking about athletes and all the hard work that happens in the months and years leading up to the events. When I started working at Lerner Publishing Group, one of my first big projects was the Sports Heroes and Legends series.  The series covers a range of former and current […]Read more "Inspiration from Athletes"

Wow! Thanks for all of the great comments and retweets on last week’s Free Book Friday post!Congratulations to Holly Thorwarth! Holly is the winner of our new Searchlight Books ™ — How Does Your Body Work? series! Holly, please email your shipping address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we will get your books in the mail ASAP! This week we’re […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Has The Hunger Games movie hit your city’s second-run theaters yet? It’s currently playing at my favorite gem of an old-fashioned, neighborhood movie theater in Minneapolis, and the $3 ticket price lured me into a second viewing over last weekend. After the movie, my companions and I reflected on the movie vs. the book (I […]Read more "We All Love a Good Flow Chart"

As mentioned on the blog last week, the past few years has seen an exciting development of “crowd funding” websites designed to help serious artists raise money for their creative projects. Sites like Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com) and Indiegogo (www.indiegogo.com) have spawned a wave of activity that allows designers, filmmakers, and yes, comic book artists the opportunity […]Read more "Graphic Universe Artists Ride “Crowd Funding” Wave"

We’re gonna jump straight to the goods this week. Five or six new Kindle Fires, or only one or two? [TeleRead] Can Technology Fix Education? [PC Magazine]  Adult fiction ebooks outsold hardcovers in 2011: survey [Reuters] How Kickstarter could disrupt public radio [gigaom] Universities reshaping education on the web [The Sydney Morning Herald] A man […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 7/24: Your Post It Princess is in Another Castle…"

  Many poor people in Haiti eat dirt. Yep, dirt. Women mix it with shortening and salt, then shape it into round cakes and dry the cakes in the sun (above left). Kathlyn Gay, author of TFCB’s new Fall 2012 title Food: The New Gold (cover above right), talks about this practice along with a […]Read more "Geophagy: Eating What?"