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First Second Books: Fall 2014
Books! We are publishing them this fall, and we're very excited about them. Here's the roll-call (in age order). Julia's House for Lost Creatures, by Ben Hatke This book is an absolutely adorable story about a girl who fills her house with lost creatures . . . and then has to get them to behave! [...]
How to Choose a Publisher
test heading (image from NY Mag. It is a very attractive (but wrinkled!) book.) The best reason to pick a publisher is because you like the books they publish. So the process should go like this:  Read lots of books. Read as many of them as you can get your hands on! Read them even [...]
Happy Book Birthday, Sailor Twain PB!
From the desk of :01 Publisher Simon Boughton The hardcover publication of Mark Siegel's Sailor Twain a year or so ago was marked by a special exhibition at the New York Public Library – a collection of Twain documents and artifacts set out in the library’s displays cases with great solemnity and with no mention [...]
Make Publishers Notice You
test heading (with these five easy tricks!) (I have taken this photo of the awesomeness that is TCAF from blogTO.) If you are a comics-creating person, it is possible that one of your goals is to have publishers notice you! Because some day (perhaps now) you have a book that it'd be great if they [...]
New Book: The Shadow Hero
New book new book! We just got in advance copies of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's upcoming graphic novel The Shadow Hero. This book is going to be really great, you guys! (You may know that already if you've already read the first e-issue that went on sale last week.) Pictures! Here is the [...]
3 Olympians Books on the NY Times Best-Seller List
Congratulations to George O'Connor, who starts this week off with his most recent three books in the Olympians series all hitting the New York Times Best-Seller list! With Aphrodite: Goddess of Love just hitting stores this month for Valentine's Day, now's the perfect time to check out this fun, dynamic, and educational series. Â
Shadow Hero: The Green Turtle Chronicles
Today's the day that the first e-issue of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's story about the first Asian-American superhero, The Shadow Hero, comes out -- 'The Shadow Hero: The Green Turtle Chronicles.' This book is really super! We hope you check it out -- either in e-issues now, or when it comes out as [...]
New Book: Andre the Giant
New book! We just got in advance copies of Box Brown's upcoming graphic novel biography, Andre the Giant. It looks super! This book is going to be great. Pictures! Here's the cover of Andre the Giant. It is possessed of some excellent blurbs! You can't see from this picture, but Andre and the ropes are [...]
Who to E-mail at First Second
test heading (image purloined from here. No text characters were harmed in the making of this blog post.) You may be considering drafting an e-mail to First Second. You're thinking, 'Important things are on my mind that I must tell those folks at First Second! An e-mail shall be composed straightaway!' Here is the first [...]
Belly Bands
test heading Sometimes books have belly bands! What's a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley's Relish -- that strip around the bottom with the [...]
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