[1] In 2007, she started Jezebel's Fine Lines column, "the feature in which we give a wrinkled look at the books we loved as youth," which she wrote until 2009.
[1][2][3] Shelf Discovery, her book on young adult fiction of her youth, appeared from HarperCollins in 2009.
[1][5] The press's classic YA reprints have been praised by The Boston Globe,[6] The New York Times[7] many other publications and organizations.
[8] The press's first original book, Isabel's War, published in 2014, received praise from The Wall Street Journal and other critical outlets and the Association of Jewish Libraries named it a Sydney Taylor Honor Book (second to the first prize winner).
[16] Skurnick's That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World, inspired by and expanding upon the column, was published by Workman in April 2015.