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test heading (The premise of Box Brown's Andre the Giant, from the flap. Nonfiction is pretty easy to grok, premise-wise.) The premise and the plot of a book are two different things. The premise is the concept of the book. The plot, on the other hand, is what happens in the book -- all the [...]
The Stranger, by Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, and Balak comes out today! This book is super-rad, you guys. It's something that we don't do a lot -- a series -- in a very fast-paced, action-packed style. If you liked The Hunger Games, this is definitely a book for you! We're delighted that we're able to [...]
test heading (from The Shadow Hero, by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew) It can be very difficult to say no to your publisher. After all, they're paying you money AND publishing your book. And clearly they don't think the things they're asking you are crazy, or they wouldn't be asking you them (or at [...]
New book! Just in time for the publication of the first volume of the Last Man series, we got in the advance copies of the second -- The Royal Cup! This book will be out at the end of June. It looks great. Pictures! Where the first book was predominantly red, we're going for a [...]
test heading (Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang's short story based on their graphic novel In Real Life over on tor.com) There's a lot you can do to promote your book right when it's coming out, or in the month or two ahead of that. What are the things that can't wait, that you should do [...]
test heading When we publish books here at First Second, we generally try to put some art on the spine. Why do we do this? Look at your bookshelf. Go to your local bookstore and your local library. Look at their bookshelves. 99.9% probability that the first thing you saw when you looked at your [...]
We've just gotten in advance copies of one of our upcoming spring books -- The Divine, by Asaf Hanuka, Tomer Hanuka, and Boaz Lavie! It looks amazing! We're super-excited. Pictures! Here's the cover. And a side-view of the spine (complete with magical floating child)! And here's a row of the spines all together. The French [...]
Today's the day that The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie, the companion to James Kochalka's wonderful graphic novel of last year, The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza, is on sale! (Just look at that Glorkian Warrior! He's so full of pie-related adventures.) We think that these brightly-colored, hilarious books are just splendid, and we hope [...]
test heading (some of the books in the hallway outside our offices) I'm a big fan of publishing, as an industry. I think it's fascinating to learn about the history of how we've published books in the US (and around the world), and why people have made the creative and business decisions that have led [...]
test heading (lots of paper) "I'll do anything!" is frequently the response we hear from authors when we ask them what they're interested in doing to market their book. This is an admirably enthusiastic response! We appreciate it. It's really great when authors are willing to go above and beyond for their books. Yay that! [...]
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