Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, YA, and Graphic Novels
Check out today’s new releases from Lerner!Read more "Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, YA, and Graphic Novels"
A Note to Readers from YA Author Catherine Barter
By Libby Stille, Associate Publicist The US edition of Catherine Barter’s YA novel Troublemakers launches on April 1! Troublemakers follows 15-year-old Alena as she seeks to find out the truth about what happened to her activist mother. Meanwhile, her brother Danny’s job working for a conservative politician worries his longtime boyfriend Nick, who runs a fair-trade coffee […]Read more "A Note to Readers from YA Author Catherine Barter"
Meet YA Author Kiersi Burkhart
Author Kiersi Burkhart stops by the blog to talk about her debut YA novel, Honor Code.Read more "Meet YA Author Kiersi Burkhart"
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"
