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What is going on with No More Mac & Cheese (A Bachelor’s Guide to Cooking with Ease)?  This book is now almost 20 years old and has never gone out of print.  Still, we would expect sales to slow, but they have only accelerated.  New college graduates are certainly having a tougher time finding work, [...]

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A simple piece of advice that we offer children’s book writers and illustrators—animals, not humans.  Maybe this isn’t clear?  Children’s picture books that depict animals rather than humans have the potential to attract a wider audience.  Why?  No one has painted a perfect multi-ethnic human; it may be close to impossible.  Unfortunately this is the challenge of [...]

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We sat down recently with the author of Lawrence the Laughing Cookie Jar, a book that is generating a new wave of attention ever since the recent publication of Rhyme.  The author of both children’s books, Will Marks, while media shy, agreed to spend a few minutes with us after we promised to avoid the [...]

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There’s an old saying in the book industry: “Better off are you, with a pre-press review.”  If a new book hits the shelves with a comment on the back cover (which will obviously be a positive one), it can only help book sales.  “Love the story, 3 Cheers, Couldn’t Put it Down, I was howling!”—Rickey Jacobs, The [...]

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My mother has never been a Dr. Seuss fan. I don’t think she has a problem with the stories and the pictures.  But, she prefers the dictionary as it stands and has no appreciation for made up words, especially when taught to children.  I can understand her view, and because of this (and out of respect [...]

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