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Happy book birthday, SUMO!
Today is the pub date of Thien Pham's remarkable book, Sumo. How proud of it are we? THIS PROUD!
Publishing Seasons
test heading Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through April Spring: May [...]
Multi-Book Contracts
test heading (from the OSU Special Collections and Archives. As shown above, all contracts must be signed in rooms full of maps.) Why would you want to sign a multi-book contract with a publisher -- a contract that gives them the right to publish not just your next book, but your next two or three [...]
First Second: Spring 2013
Spring is coming! You probably couldn't tell this, because it is currently cold and dark and damp, but new leaves and flowers and things are really close. They're just around the corner. You can tell because I already know what we're publishing. And after reading this post, you can know too! Astronaut Academy: Re-entry, by [...]
Should You Ask Your Publisher for Money?
test heading (from the George Eastman House. We try not to keep this much money in the office -- and mostly we don't put it through a shredder when it is around!) Should you ask your publisher for money? Let me first say that I'm talking about this in a marketing context, not a publishing [...]
Distributors
test heading (photo from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums. No distributors were involved (or harmed) in the making of this picture.) What is a distributor? Despite popular opinion, when you would like a book from First Second, you don't get it by having one of the First Second staff people go off to [...]
Perfect Gifts for that undiscovered cartoonist
James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederic Frost keep rolling out the goofy and brilliant ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING series—and we keep receiving fan art and original comics from 7, 8, and 9 year old talents! Some of them may even have found their calling thanks to these gems. Do you know a budding genius who [...]
Should You Call Us on The Phone?
test heading (photo from The Library of Congress. We use very similar phones here in the First Second offices.) Phones. Those are a thing that we have in our office, as well as the postal service and also computers. They're like a primitive technology! Sometimes we use them to keep in touch with people. Should [...]
Happy Thanksgiving-1!
test heading (photo from the State Library and Archives of Florida. This is not one of the turkeys that we keep around the office to aid us in our publishing tasks. You can recognize those because of their excellent typing skills.) It's Thanksgiving today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope that you have many delicious things [...]
5 Reasons We Asked You To Change Your Book Title
test heading (from The New York Public Library collection. We were not involved with changing the titles on any of these books.) Sometimes when authors send us books, they are like, 'the title is Arglefraster!' and we say 'um, no.' Here are some reasons why. (P.S.: We would totally say no to the title 'Arglefraster!' [...]
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