Lerner Publishing Group
Independent publisher · US
Agented onlyCBC member Status not yet verified — confirm on the publisher's site
We haven't yet confirmed this status against the publisher's own site. Treat the policy below as a lead and verify on their submissions page before you send.
Submission status
Only considers agented submissions and/or previously published authors.
- Source says
- “Lerner Publishing Group does not accept unsolicited submissions or queries from unagented or unreferred authors. Occasionally, we may put out a call for open submissions, which will be announced in our Press Room.”
- We derived
- Agented only
- Confirmed
- Not yet verified against the publisher's own site.
Eligibility
Unagented closed; occasional open calls announced in the Press Room.
What they publish
- Audiences
- Preschool, Elementary, Middle grade, Young adult
- Formats
- Board book, Early reader, Graphic novel, Picture book, Ebook, Novel
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Fiction
- Themes / focus
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels
- Titles per year
- Roughly 300 trade books annually
How to submit
- Method
- See guidelines
- Query first
- No
Trust & source
- CBC member
- Yes — Children's Book Council member
- Charges authors
- No
- Website
- lernerbooks.com/
- Policy source
- cbcbooks.org/publishers/our-members/
Status not yet verified. The publisher's own submissions page is always the final word — policies change without notice.