Welcome to Lerner Fashion Week day #2! Now that we’ve all learned how to make our buckskins look best, it’s time to focus on some “rugged looks for rugged men” from our new book Calico Dresses and Buffalo Robes: American West Fashions from the 1840s to the 1890s. If you’re looking for warm clothing this […]Read more "Lerner Fashion Week Day 2- Rugged Looks for Rugged Men"

With all of the buzz about New York Fashion Week, we’ve decided to host our very own Lerner Fashion Week here on the blog. However, our fashion week won’t be filled with the latest styles from huge designers. Nope! Our fashion week will be filled with historical looks and trends from our new series Dressing […]Read more "Lerner Fashion Week!"

I do not doubt that there has been enough on the television/radio and in the newspaper/blogs/twitter/ether that we are all well aware of the tenth anniversary of 9/11/2001. I find I have no words. I cannot articulate anything that hasn’t already been said by somebody, somewhere. Yet neither can I blithely post about anything else. […]Read more "A Moment of Silence"

  When I woke up on September 11, 2001, to the radio announcing that the Twin Towers had been hit, I was safe in bed in a Minnesota dorm room. I hadn’t been to New York or Washington, D.C. in years, nor did I have any close connections with people there at the time. Yet […]Read more "Ten Years Later"

“Imagine me, reader; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.” -Nabokov (I know, I know, you’re all shocked.) The word “believe” and its derivatives come up a lot when readers and reviewers evaluate fiction–especially realistic fiction. I certainly have used it, and I probably will slip up and do so fifteen minutes […]Read more "Believe or imagine"

Fall is definitely in the air here in Minnesota! The air is a little crisper, the days are getting shorter, and class is in session for all of those happy students. In honor of going back-to-school we want to give you free copies of Back-to-School Rules and Fall Mixed Up! To win a copy of […]Read more "Back-to-School Book Giveaway"

There’s been so much excitement about the new TFCB fashion series, Dressing a Nation. It’s been a lot of fun to come up with blog entries to support the series, though I think this will be the last one for a while. I’m on vacation as you read this entry. In fact, I’m going to […]Read more "A Little Tighter, Please"

When I tell people that I edit children’s books, I usually get a pretty positive response. People often say things like, “How fun!” or “That sounds interesting!” It makes good convo fodder at a party. Sometimes people follow up with questions about what editing entails. But more often than not, they offer follow-ups such as, […]Read more "Editing Is NOT Proofreading!"

Last Friday we battened down the hatches at Graphic Universe’s New York City office, not sure of what the storm had in store for us. I personally gathered a home survival kit which consisted a supply of drinking water, flashlights, batteries, nonperishable food, a deck of cards, and a bottle of wine. In Bushwick, the […]Read more "A Comics Library Without a Home"