test headingThis weekend was the Brooklyn Book Festival! As half of our staff lives in Brooklyn, we like to support the borough. Also, two of our authors -- Derek Kirk Kim (Tune) and Mark Siegel (Sailor Twain) were featured in the programming. So off we went! Here's the program guide! And it even had a [...]
test heading First Second doesn't typically exhibit at SPX -- they're a whole four hours away, and by car! How would we even get there? (That is an obviously facetious question.) But our designer, Colleen AF Venable, and I went down to the show this year. I was only able to attend SPX on Saturday, [...]
test heading (ganked from the State Library of Queensland, Australia) So, you're thinking about going on a book tour to celebrate the release of your next book. How exciting! I think that book tours are invaluable for authors; they help establish personal relationships with readers, (and, very importantly) teachers and librarians and media and booksellers [...]
test headingSo! We went to San Diego Comic-Con, and emerged relatively unscathed, with clean hearts, minds, and all of our limbs attached -- really as much as anyone could hope for. While at the show, we got to hang out with some of our wonderful authors -- Jorge Aguirre, Vera Brosgol, Cecil Castellucci, Tony Cliff, [...]
test heading We're heading out to the sunny, comics-filled town of San Diego next week for San Diego Comic-Con, along with a lot of our authors, some brand new and recent books, and our wonderful selves (which we try to bring to every convention, in a more-or-less wonderful sort of way). Here's what our SDCC [...]
test heading (There are actually no other disasters in this post. It's just the one. But that's enough of a disaster.) (photo ganked from LSE Library) When you've created a graphic novel, there may subsequently be events to celebrate. Bookstores and libraries and schools and lecture serieses and museums and occasionally the odd garden party [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
test headingWhat 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, exhibiting [...]
