Scholastic Corporation

that.

Has Scholastic ever not fumbled a series? Animorphs? I mean, they fumbled Animorphs.

How did they

fumble Animorphs? Graphic novels, the reprints.

I mean, not the, I mean, yeah, not the original per se.

Yeah.

But, no, like, with the reprints of it, the quitting out on book seven every time, with the graphic novels, like, quitting out, like, I feel like Scholastic just has, like, a history of fumbling everything that they have.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And so Robin was just saying, like, there's one company that has 60% of the market share now, and that's Scholastic.

Yep.

And so he just talks about the history of Jess Smith's bone, because basically bone...

some reason, he put Jeff Smith's bone every time.

So weird.

Anyway, but just talking about the fact that that was basically the beginning of Scholastic's graphics line.

In fact, it was the beginning of Scholastic's graphics

like I'm watching a movie.

Wait, pause, are you- DreamWorks and Scholastic Productions.

I don't know if I can pause this.

Ooh, a ticket! Okay, it says, escape from Horrorland, admit one.

I loved doing it.

And me and my editor, Emily Seife at Scholastic, who is wonderful, we actually start editing at the outline stage so that if there's any sort of, like, apparent overarching, um, issues that we can see in the plot, or plot holes, or in the character development, we can tackle it before I start writing, and that helps me to write cleaner drafts.

My drafts are shorter because of that because I'm just getting to the point.

Mm-hmm.

You can put pictures.

Um, so I keep everything there.

But Scholastic also really helped because the copy editors made a story bible for me from the very beginning and where they were adding the monsters and the spells and the locations, and they reference that, um, when they're copy editing, and they gave me a copy of that, too, so that was really helpful.

But I've started doing that for myself, too, um, because it just helps me keep everything organized.

I got one quick thing just to put out there.

For anybody who is on the East Coast, if you are in kind of over towards New York where they're doing New York Comic Con, Scholastic just announced today that R.L. Stine will be there doing a signing.

On top of that, our

friends.

Yeah.

So I worked at Scholastic for about seven years.

So my career started in children's publishing.

And so I worked for Scholastic Book Clubs.

And it's funny when I mention that to people, they're always like, oh, I love Scholastic Book Clubs.

It has this sort of like feel good, you know, you know, feeling around.

around buying books when you were a kid.

So, you know, it was like me on the phone with, you know, Chinese companies, you know, Chinese manufacturers being like, I need 10,000 unicorn bracelets, you know, and I need them by Friday.

Zoe manages the production of The World Almanac and Book of Facts and The World Almanac for Kids.

Zoe is a recent addition to the staff, coming from Scholastic Inc., where she was an editor for the, for a popular reading intervention program and previously wrote and edited classroom magazines.

And Zoe, welcome to The X Zone.

Well, thank you very much for having me.

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