Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, Middle Grade, and YA
Take a look at new Lerner books to read this February.Read more "Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, Middle Grade, and YA"
“Like Getting Punched in the Face”: Discovering Debut YA The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary
By Amy Fitzgerald, Senior Editor In early March of 2017, my boss sent me a YA novel manuscript to read. She had been kind enough to share a lot of her incoming submissions with me as I worked on building up my own contacts with literary agents, so there wasn’t anything unusual about this forwarded […]Read more "“Like Getting Punched in the Face”: Discovering Debut YA The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary"
The Art of Cover Design: The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary
I asked designer Lindsey Owens if she had things to say about the cover design for our novel The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary that she’d like to discuss on the blog, and yes, yes she did. Today’s Dispatch from the Design Department—and a look into life in publishing—is courtesy of Lindsey. Also, I don’t make a […]Read more "The Art of Cover Design: The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary"
On the Free Author Coert Voorhees on an Unforgettable Hike
Author Coert Voorhees shares a challenging hiking experience that partially inspired his YA wilderness survival novel On the Free. I’ve had some rough outings in my day, but I think my most intense experience came in the Grand Canyon when I was 19 years old. So intense was it, in fact, that I’ve incorporated some elements […]Read more "On the Free Author Coert Voorhees on an Unforgettable Hike"
Meet YA Author and Avid Hiker Coert Voorhees
On the Free, the new YA wilderness survival novel by Coert Voorhees, takes readers on an intense, sometimes frightening trek through the Colorado wilderness. Voorhees tells his story from three different perspectives—and with a level of detail that reveals his own experience outdoors. We caught up with Coert to find out more about that last […]Read more "Meet YA Author and Avid Hiker Coert Voorhees"
A Note from National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold
National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold shares a note to What Girls Are Made Of readers and an excerpt from the book.Read more "A Note from National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold"
Why We Need YA Novels with Unlikable Female Protagonists
By Alix Reid, Editorial Director of Carolrhoda Lab™ I had the very great pleasure of working with Elana K. Arnold on her YA novel, What Girls Are Made Of, which is a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature finalist. (You can read more about that here.)Read more "Why We Need YA Novels with Unlikable Female Protagonists"
Q&A with Paper Butterflies Author Lisa Heathfield
UK author Lisa Heathfield stops by the blog to talk about Carnegie Medal-nominee Paper Butterflies, which was released in the US on October 1.Read more "Q&A with Paper Butterflies Author Lisa Heathfield"
YA Novels that Challenge Assumptions
By Editor Amy Fitzgerald In November of 2015, I checked in with my then-boss, Alix Reid, about her backlog of manuscript submissions. (As a newbie trade editor, I was still dreaming of the day when I, too, would have more manuscripts in my inbox than I could hope to review in a timely manner.) Alix […]Read more "YA Novels that Challenge Assumptions"
