The UK’s Quercus Publishing is create a new fiction imprint for the US market called Silver Oak, in a joint venture with Sterling Publishing. Quercus will select titles from their list, and Sterling will market and distribute in North America. The initial deal is for three years and the line will launch in January 2011 with Swedish authors Roslund and Hellström’s THREE SECONDS (a bestseller in Sweden, recently named that country’s crime novel of the year.) Quercus ceo Mark Smithsays in the announcement, “This partnership with one of North America’s leading publishing companies will give us access to the world’s […]