Mary Cummings, former administrator of the McKnight Award in Children’s Literature and organizer of the Festival of Children’s Literature at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, will be representing children’s books in association with Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises. Hollan Publishing’s principals Holly Schmidt and Allan Penn have joined with literary agent Lori Perkins to form Literary Partners Group, which is launching an online publishing company called Ravenous Romance. They will publish daily novel-length erotic romances, as well as lunchtime short stories, in e-book and downloadable MP3 format, starting December 1. Schmidt says in an announcement “we will succeed by producing […]
Distribution
Distribution News: Trafalgar Square Adds Nine
Trafalgar Square is now distributing the following well-known UK publishers in the US market: The History PressOneWorld Classics/Calder PublicationsPiatkus Books along with: Alma BooksAngry PenguinCadmos BooksCapuchin ClassicsPushkin PressSpy Publishing Previously, MBI distributed select imprint from The History Press, as did NBN, which also distributed Alma, OneWorld, Piatkus and Pushkin. The other four have not been distributed in North America before.