By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I made this pink elephant cake for my neighbor girl’s golden birthday earlier this month. It was such a big hit that I’m thinking of making it again over the Memorial Day weekend. Can you believe it’s coming up already? It’s honestly a very easy cake to make. […]Read more "Time for Cake"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Did you know that the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in less than a month? Did you know that this year it’s being held in South Africa? If you aren’t quite ready for the World Cup, don’t worry. You still have a little time before it begins on June […]Read more "Are You Ready for Some Soccer?"

by Anna CavalloAssociate Editor Show of hands: how many of you know or remember how to integrate a function? For me, calculus fell in the “use it or lose it” category, and thus I lost it sometime after my first year of college. But Steven Strogatz’s recent series of math columns in the New York […]Read more "Math in Context"

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s the week before BEA, and I’m bat-guano crazy right now. But the book gods take pity on poor bookmakers and send us shiny new books when we need them most. Yesterday, |-1| came in and my copy got swept away before I could shoot it. I was able […]Read more "The merciful beauty of books"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I’m off to New York this weekend for a pre-BookExpo America (BEA) Fall 2010 preview event next week. I’m presenting new TFCB titles to a select group of reviewers, bloggers, and librarians. My colleagues will be doing the same for their imprints. More on the event and the […]Read more "Off to New York"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press The poor-quality cell phone photo above is a draft of a presentation I’ll be giving next week. After writing the draft and then crossing out and changing a good part of it, I typed it up on my computer, making yet more changes. I’ve been working in publishing for […]Read more "Writing and Rewriting"

I asked author Candice Ransom to blog about her recent office remodel. Thanks, Candice, for sharing the story and photos. I am delighted to write about my recent home office re-do. I posted about the transformation on my own blog, Under the Honeysuckle Vine, which shows numerous photographs. I decided to become a children’s book […]Read more "Up Near the Roof"

<img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DRH_8nTKpLY/S-xZLAq8LwI/AAAAAAAAAho/boQAh6Lp9As/video4cdbd1b23600%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('075eb8ec-5493-4bad-b746-1df39ad78be4'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " http://www.youtube.com/v/cMOAXm94VWo&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en“;” alt=””> I’ve been teaching a class about YA at The Loft for the past couple weeks, and one of the things we’ve discovered is how important waiting and boredom are in YA. Pick up any good YA novel, and you’ll find periods […]Read more "“What’s it going to be then, eh?”"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I love the Guardian’s “Writers’ Rooms” online series. It’s a great collection of photos and short notes about the spaces in which writers work. Inspired by the series, I created the “TFCB Writers’ and Editors’ Rooms” photo essay below. Let’s start with my work space at the Lerner […]Read more "Inhabiting Our Work Spaces"