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MARATHON sprints out the door!
test heading MARATHON is now out in stores! This extraordinary epic takes you back to Ancient Greece in the footsteps of Eucles, the man who ran hundreds of miles, eventually from the city of Marathon to Athens, warning of the impending attack of the Persian fleet. The run saved democracy and was at the origin [...]
ALA 2012, Artists Alley: graphic novel folks
Lovely recap from ALA 2012 in Anaheim, filmed by author Derek Kirk Kim! Graphic Novel authors discuss the differences between ALA and comics conventions, and more—here's a great way to get a few flavors from a memorable and exceptional ALA: Click to view
Submissions: Five Quick Tips
test heading (photo ganked from the Smithsonian Institution) People send us a whole lot of mail. And a lot of e-mail on top of that. A good amount of that mail is submissions. Here are some quick tips for rising to the top of that submission-related mail stack. (Our Senior Editor, Calista Brill, has written [...]
Graphic Novel Summer Reading
Who doesn't love summer reading -- it's that time of the year when you get to kick back and enjoy books in the company of sandy beaches, porches with rocking chairs, lemonade, and perhaps even a hiking trip! (Unless you're in publishing, that is, in which case you spend much of the summer running around [...]
Joe Infurnari and George O’Connor @ Bergen Street Tomorrow
Party! Joe Infurnari, author of the just-debuting-this-week Marathon, and George O'Connor, author of the Olympians series, will be celebrating their books at Bergen Street Comics tomorrow. They're both nice guys who do great books; you should stop by and say hi.
Success Metrics
test heading (photo ganked from the Library of Congress) One of the questions that we frequently get from authors is: what makes my book a success? This, of course, is a sensible question for any author to ask their publisher. Who doesn’t want to know beforehand if your publisher is going to be like, ‘Well, [...]
First Second @ ALA Annual 2012
test heading We’re going to ALA Annual next week! Who could resist the opportunity to meet with tens of thousands of librarians all in the same (extremely large) room? First Second will be exhibiting with our parent company, MacKids, at booths 2534/2535. We will have books for you to look at! I will be there [...]
Cosplay with us and win a free book! San Diego Comic Con and :01 Stylin’
test headingNow don't get me wrong, I love a big-haired 80's Rogues as much as the next guy, probably even MORE than the next guy—her hair was like twice the size of her body! How could you possibly fly with THAT MUCH HAIR?! Surely, proof that 80's Rogue is the strongest X-Men all of a [...]
About Publishing Internships
test heading (ganked from the Smithsonian Institution) So, internships! It turns out that people want them, and then they e-mail us about their internship-related desires. I personally have nothing but good things to say about internships. Without the two amazing internships I had -- one at Red Hen Press, the other with Dark Horse Comics [...]
BEA 2012
test heading What is BEA, you ask? Why, BEA is the largest book trade show in the United States. It resides in the puzzling and constantly-renovating far-from-everything Javits Center in New York City, and it is chock-a-block full with publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, and also this year, miscellaneous members of the public. We’ll be there, [...]
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