The digital-first mystery and thriller imprint that William Morrow first announced when they hired executive editor Dan Mallory last August will formally launch in October under the name Witness. The first 10 titles releasing that month are largely from UK authors including Stephen Booth, Frances Fyfield, Emlyn Rees, and Rory Clements.…
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Former Rodale Star Zinczenko Pairs with Random House On Imprint, Book Deal, and Distribution
Random House Publishing Group will partner with former Rodale executive David Zinczenko for an imprint, a multi-book contract, and a distribution deal. The imprint, Zinc Ink, will issue 6 to 12 lifestyle and nonfiction titles a year starting in 2014 in a profit-sharing arrangement. Titles signed include Maria Menounos's The…
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Maha Khalil has joined the Crown Publishing Group as marketing director for Clarkson Potter, Potter Style, Potter Craft, Watson-Guptill and Amphoto. Maha was previously sales director at Hyperion. Also at the Potter group of imprints, Allison Renzulli has been promoted to senior marketing manager; Carly Gorga moves up to associate…
Corporate; Melville House Adds UK Branch; Wimpy Kid Stationery
Melville House is creating a UK-based operation. Zeljka Marosevic, formerly of Fourth Estate, will run Melville House UK. Dennis Johnson tells the Bookseller the unit "would at first concentrate on marketing its 60 frontlist titles, as well as selected backlist, distributed in Britain through Turnaround." He hopes to hire an…
New Imprints: Jonathan Cape Children's Revives Fiction Publishing; Penguin Australia Unveils Young Readers Program
Jonathan Cape Children's, which has been publishing new picture books and backlist titles by Roald Dahl and Joan Aiken, will now publish new fiction, led Random House Children's UK publisher Annie Eaton. In a statement she said she would acquire "some very special future children's classics." RHCP m.d. Philippa Dickinson…
Amazon Publishing Adds A Literary Imprint, Little A
Amazon Publishing will now publish literary fiction, story collections, and memoir under what they are calling a new literary imprint, Little A. That imprint will also publish a digital-only series "focused on short stories from debut writers" in North America and the UK under a separate moniker, Day One. The…
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Confirmed via Twitter though not officially announced yet by the ABA, Anthony Marra's debut novel A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA from Hogarth will be the No. 1 Indie Next pick for May. Marra was among the authors appearing at Winter Institute 8 and you can read a 20-page excerpt from…
Imprints: Little Brown UK Tries Literary Digital Line; Atria Reannounces Rachael Ray Books
Little Brown UK is expanding their digital imprints (which include Crime Vault and Piatkus Entice) with a line focused on literary fiction, Blackfriars. It launches in July and aims to publish nine to 12 titles a year, under the direction of Abacus publishing director Clare Smith and Virago associated publisher Ursula…
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Mary Ann Naples is returning to book publishing as publisher of Rodale Books, starting March 4, following detours to OpenSky and then, briefly, Zola Books (as head of business development; she will now join Zola's strategic advisory board.) Naples had been a co-founder of literary agency The Creative Culture after working…
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