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The Cocktail Party

I had the opportunity to talk to the students at the Hamline University’s low residency MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. It’s a new-ish program, but it’s off to a fantastic start with a great faculty and great students. It was a real pleasure to be involved. One of the things I talked […]Read more "The Cocktail Party"
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Working on a Memoir

This past year, I had the pleasure of working with the company’s founder, Harry Lerner, on his memoir. I had been bugging him to write it since 2006, because the company’s 50th anniversary was coming up in 2009. I KNEW it would take a lot of nudging to get him going, and boy was I […]Read more "Working on a Memoir"
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A Foot in the Door

I started my career at Lerner Publishing Group as the company proofreader, way back in the early 1990s. The tools of the trade in those days were a red pen and lots of pencils. Okay, and some erasers too. In the digital twenty-first century, as editorial director of the TFCB imprint, I’m at the computer […]Read more "A Foot in the Door"