Orbit Launches Horror Imprint
Orbit has launched a new horror imprint called Run For It, which will publish current Orbit horror authors as well as new ones. First titles debut in summer 2025. Tim Holman, svp, publisher of Orbit, says in a release, “We’ve been steadily increasing the number of horror titles we publish each year, and with so many exciting things happening in the horror genre over recent years it seemed the perfect time to launch a dedicated imprint. Our goal is to make Run for It a destination imprint for the most exciting writers in the field—and we can’t wait to take […]
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Former Hachette UK Executive Doyle Files Discrimination Complaint
Ursula Doyle, former publisher of Hachette UK’s Fleet imprint, has filed a discrimination complaint against the company. On a fundraising page for legal fees, Doyle explains that she resigned after facing online harassment from colleagues for publishing Kathleen Stock’s 2020 “gender critical” book Material Girls. Doyle writes that she was a “target for abuse by colleagues in the book industry, who have used social media to accuse me of – among other things – bigotry, prejudice, transphobia and hatred, often tagging in my employer, Hachette, and Hachette’s Pride network.” According to Doyle, a hearing will take place in August. Doyle […]
Forthcoming: New Zora Neale Hurston Novel
Amistad will publish a previously unpublished Zora Neale Hurston novel, THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT, on January 7, 2025, Hurston’s birthday. Scholar and literary critic Deborah Plant, who introduced Hurston’s book Barraccoon when it was published in 2018, will contextualize the novel. The new novel, which Hurston was working when she died, portrays the life of Herod the Great in first century Judea. The publisher writes, “Hurston’s Herod challenges the New Testament version of the tyrant who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in order to save the Christ-child, as recorded in the book of Matthew, by suggesting […]