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test heading New book! We're glad to have gotten advance copies of Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem, and Koren Shadmi's upcoming graphic novel Mike's Place in here at First Second. Here's an advance look! The cover. The spine -- with an excellent camera added! And here's a row of books lined up, spine-out! This book is [...]
Andi Watson is the author of the wonderful graphic novel Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula, which is in stores this week! What's your protagonist's favorite flavor of ice cream and why? What's your own favorite flavor of ice cream? I would guess that Count Spatula would prefer to make his own ice cream and create [...]
Sometimes you just get delightful books filled with cooking, and that's what this graphic novel is! Andi Watson's Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula comes out today, and we're tickled pink to be publishing it. It's fun and sweet and light-hearted -- you have to check this baking/romance/job crisis book out. Happy reading, everyone!
test heading Everyone wants the best publication date for their books -- including the publisher, of course. So how do you determine what the best publication date is? A lot of that depends on the circumstances! There aren't a lot of hard-and-fast rules. And a lot of the circumstances depend on you, the author, so [...]
test heading (some books) Say you want to get your graphic novel published by First Second. What's the most important thing that you can put in your submission letter? The most important thing you can do when you're submitting a book -- the thing that will get your graphic novel looked at fastest -- is [...]
Please enjoy reading an excellent book with a loved one on this holiday! (art from Andi Watson's Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula)
test heading (this is original art from Matt Loux' upcoming graphic novel The Time Museum!) Is it important for you to know what size to make your original art before you even start on your graphic novel project? (As with all things) It depends! Why would it be important to make your original art a [...]
test heading (this is a calendar -- it's actually the calendar on my desk) How far ahead are the graphic novels we publish planned? It's early winter of 2015 right now. (I'm writing this piece on Wednesday, January 28th, as it says in the calendar above.) Right now, authors are turning in the books (or [...]
test heading (Cory Doctorow talks to the LA Times Hero Complex about his graphic novel with Jen Wang, In Real Life) So now you're a published author! And the marketing/publicity person at your publisher e-mails to say that there's a publication who wants to do an interview by e-mail with you; here are some questions. [...]
We're delighted to have a new picture book comic by Dominique Roques and Alexis Dormal, Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion! This is the sequel to last spring's Sleep Tight, Anna Banana, a story of a girl and her stuffed animals and their difficulties in getting to sleep. Advance copies just came in from the [...]
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