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What is Copyediting?
test heading"Editing" and "Copyediting" are two distinct things, at least as far as the book publishing industry is concerned. Editing is something your editor does, and it generally concerns broad artistic changes like "Let's make this character a cat instead of a person" or "How about you kill all your characters halfway through and then [...]
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Being Rude
test heading (photo from The Smithsonian. This is a general rather than a specifically problematic example of rudeness.) One of our favorite questions that we got at NYCC this past week was: When you're considering acquiring a project, do you care whether the author of the project is rude to you? Let's think about this [...]
NYCC: We Went There
test headingOne of my favorite things about NYCC is the fact that so many people come up to our booth and say things like, 'I heard about your book on NPR' or 'I saw this book in the New York Times.' Things that mean that the people we're see are really readers of books! I [...]
Adventures in Cartooning in the Scholastic Book Clubs
test heading(a post in which we compare apples and . . . other apples that don't have a matte finish. There's a difference, we swear) Sometimes the Scholastic Book Clubs pick up copies of our books for their book clubs and publish their own editions for them (after we sign some kind of licensing contract [...]
BESTSELLERS AND TEENAGERS
Taking a break from the absolute mayhem of New York Comic Con to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! to three New York Times Bestsellers: Broxo, by Zack Giallongo  Sailor Twain, by Mark Siegel  And guest star Hope Larson, whose graphic novel adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time was published by our sister imprint, Farrar, Straus and [...]
Launch Parties
test heading (photo from NASA. This is a rocket launch, not a book launch. Obviously. You could still have a party for it if you wanted, though.) Sometimes when books come out, people are so excited that they have parties! (Okay -- typically the 'people' I mention so elliptically in the previous sentence are us, [...]
NYCC Booth Set-Up In Process
test heading(a photo-essay) Beginning: And, we're done! See you all at the show this weekend -- booth 1214.
On the Good Ship Clearwater
test headingLast Friday, we headed out on the Hudson River for the launch for Mark Siegel's graphic novel Sailor Twain, which is set on a steamboat on that very same river. We were not lucky enough to have our launch on a steamboat (I think maybe they are all gone because it is not the [...]
Publication Dates
test heading (from the London School of Economics. I know who neither of these people are, but they are clearly the people who make the decisions about publication dates everywhere in the world. You can tell by their serious expressions.) "Dear Author, your book has a publication date! It officially comes out on October 2nd!" [...]
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