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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
test heading First Second is an imprint of Macmillan. That's their logo at the top of this post. We don't talk about them a whole lot, because the day-to-day interesting bits about First Second (ie, publishing graphic novels) don't have a lot to do with what's going on corporately at Macmillan (ie, running a multi-national [...]
test heading (we purloined this image from Fanpop because it's excellent! It does, however, have nothing to do with book embargoes.) This is a post about publicity embargoes. It's not a post about book embargoes. We don't really do them, since they're extremely complicated and difficult to organize. A book embargo is when you forbid [...]
test heading (The black streaks across the top of this back cover are an actual misprint! How did this happen to this volume of Kim Dong Hwa's The Color of Earth trilogy? We're not entirely sure. . . .) What's a misprint? A misprint is when we publish a book and something crazy happens to [...]
test heading (I can't tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition -- from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusion about whether or not they're the same. They're [...]
test heading (This is a cover template from our printer for one of our books. We get one of these things every time we print a book so we know just how wide to make the spine, how any wrapped edges are going to overlap with the endpapers, etc.) You may have noticed that many [...]
test heading (illustration from NY Mag's interesting article on the 'new adult' phenomenon) If you're reading our blog because you're a dedicated comics reader who follows the ins-and-outs of the comics publishing industry -- rather than a dedicated books reader who follows the ins-and-outs of the book publishing industry -- chances are that 'New Adult' [...]
