(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 all around Read the Rest…
So, you’re an author; your book is about to come out. One morning, you get this pin in the mail: What’s going on? Your book has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection. What is Junior Library Guild, you ask? Do you know how your local library chooses the books they keep on their Read the Rest…
(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 will have Read the Rest…
(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 a longer Read the Rest…
(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, if your Read the Rest…
(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 — I Read the Rest…
(tree ganked from The Field Museum Library) Sometimes when I tell people that First Second is an imprint of Macmillan USA, I get blank looks — and that's about the time that I remember that not everyone spends all of their time decoding publishing family trees (that's right! That tree at the top of the Read the Rest…
I've got a lot of books in my office. It's not as many as I expected to have when I was a small child thinking about working in publishing — that envisioning had books carpeting the walls (and possibly even the ceiling). There are actually a few editors in our Macmillan-owned building who have offices Read the Rest…
(A set of Cost-of-Living offices, from the University of Washington's Digital Archives) A Day in the Life of :01 Marketing So I thought as an exercise, I’d write down all the things I do in a day and share them with the internet. I occasionally do talks at colleges about what in the world is Read the Rest…
The pretzel croissant: it is like a croissant, except that it is also like a pretzel (possibly this is magic, but it is also possible that it is salt-covered and delicious). It is the absolutely perfect thing to eat at that in-between breakfast and lunch time when you have not eaten breakfast but are wanting Read the Rest…
