Archives for January 2025
Crown Launches Storehouse Voices Imprint
Crown Publishing Group has launched a new imprint, Storehouse Voices, “dedicated to elevating Black voices.” Entrepreneur and philanthropist Tamira Chapman will lead the imprint as publisher. Chapman is ceo of merchandising company Storehouse In A Box, and has previously worked with PRH hosting virtual events for authors including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama, and Amanda Gorman. Porscha Burke has moved over to serve as associate publisher. She was most recently senior editor and director of DEI strategy for the Crown and Random House Publishing Groups. Jennifer Baker will join as editorial director on February 10. She was […]
Jenna Bush Hager Launches Imprint with Random House
Jenna Bush Hager’s media company Thousand Voices has partnered with Random House Publishing Group to publish emerging authors across the group’s imprints. Hager will be involved in the acquisition, cover design, marketing, and sales plans, and she will participate in the books’ promotion “through joint appearances, partnerships, and publicity.” The imprint is completely separate from her book club (“they will not be book club choices”). Thousand Voices x RHPG has acquired six books so far and will launch with CONFORM by Ariel Sullivan, publishing by Ballantine in October 2025. (Bush Hager says the title is the first in a “a […]
Register Now for Our Next Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel
Our next virtual Buzz Books Editors Authors panel will take place on January 22 at 7 PM Eastern. Register here to hear authors of the season’s most exciting releases in conversation with their editors. Participants include: Katie Yee, debut author of Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, with editor Judy Clain Nanda Reddy, debut author of A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl, with editor Cory Hunter Jefferson Fisher, author of The Next Conversation, with editor Jacob Surpin Dennard Dayle, author of How to Dodge a Cannonball, with editor Retha Powers Louis Sachar, author of adult […]