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“Childhood is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” 27 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
(With apologies to Stephen Dedalus) (I feel like I have to write something in this space, lest the universe explode.) Miley Cyrus may be the best example going at the moment of a child who became pu...
The sub-genres 22 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
“an agent told me that publishers are no longer looking for paranormal or dystopian, but now want contemporary realism. True?” I’ve heard a few responses on Twitter and Facebook since the PW piece th...
“But I Dig Friction” 21 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
PW was very generous to ask me for my opinions, and that was a lot of fun. I do, however, want to add one thing to the record (and this is certainly not an oversight on Claire’s part): I think having ...
Poetical intersections 19 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
I can’t quite explain how this works, but there comes a point in a lot of books I work on where poetry asserts itself on the author or me or both of us at once. I don’t know exactly when it happens or...
A Way It Could Be 12 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
How about a bit of utopianism for Monday morning? Maybe with skateboarding? Here’s the deal. If you spend an hour with this 11-video oral history of skateboarding photography by photographer Andrew N...
PDF Proof Without (Much) Pain 9 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
Paper proofs are becoming less common, and many authors can expect to see all their proofs in PDF. This is a good thing for a whole host of reasons, but PDFs remain a somewhat mysterious thing for man...
Youth culture, clothing, and context 3 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Thought experiment: if sagging pants on young people—particularly young black people—signal degrees of availability for prison-style homosexual sex (yep, I'm looking at you, Don Lemon and Bill O'Reill...
Do Designers Read? 1 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
I have been a designer at Lerner Publication Group for 9 years and invariably the question that comes up the most when I tell people what I do for a living is: Do you read all of the books you work on...
Once upon a time… 26 Jul 2013 | 12:27 am
… John Starks dunked emphatically over Michael Jordan in a playoff game. Somewhat more recently, he was seen reading Hoop Genius by John Coy, illustrated by Joe Morse, to children on Long Island. It...
One Foot in Front of the Other 24 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
Carolrhoda has published hundreds of authors and illustrators in its five decades in print, but perhaps none is more closely associated with the imprint than Nancy Carlson. Of course, Nancy’s work pre...
