New Imprints

Hachette Book Group’s sci-fi/fantasy division Orbit will launch the digital imprint Orbit Works. Titles will be published around the world in ebook and digital audio, which will be produced by Hachette Audio. The imprint will be led by Orbit executive editor Brit Hvide and editor Stephanie Clark, who was hired to acquire for Orbit Works. The imprint is open to both agented and unagented submissions. Orbit SVP and publisher Tim Holman, said in a release, “We are thrilled to be launching a new imprint that harnesses our team’s expertise in publishing science fiction and fantasy, the exciting opportunities presented by […]

Abrams will separate their ComicsArts imprints into its own division, alongside its adult and children’s groups. It will continue to publish graphic novels for adults, and expand to publish manga and international titles. The first books from the new division will launch in fall 2024, and forthcoming titles include graphic adaptations of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology. Abrams’s parent company, Média-Participations (MPP), publishes comics, graphic novels, and manga in France, and the new division will allow Abrams to bring those properties to the US market. “Graphic novels, comics, and manga are an area of tremendous […]

MCD, an imprint of Farrar, Straus, will launch AUWA Books with author, musician, and filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Questlove will lead AUWA Books as publisher and editor in chief, with his manager Alexis Rosenzweig as svp and editorial director, plus executive editors Malaika Adero and Ben Greenman. The imprint’s first book will be a memoir by Sly Stone, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), out on October 17 and co-written with Greenman. Forthcoming books include Questlove’s own Hip-Hop Is History, also co-written with Greenman (2024); a book by TikTok and podcasting personality Drew Afualo (2024); Josh Luber’s Building the […]

Tor Publishing Group announced that it is launching Bramble, a new imprint “dedicated to a wide array of romantic stories for the modern reader.” Monique Patterson will join as vp, editorial director, effective February 27, and will report to president and publisher Devi Pillai. Patterson, who has worked at St. Martin’s since 2000, has almost 25 years of publishing experience in romance, and “will oversee and develop Bramble as well as acquire titles for the imprint, in addition to acquiring fiction and non-fiction outside of Bramble.” The imprint will begin publishing this fall, beginning with Jennifer Armentrout’s fantasy romance FALL […]

Astra Books for Young Readers is rebranding its children’s imprint mineditionUS to Minerva. New books published by editorial director Maria Russo will be under the Minerva name. Previously published mineditionUS titles and their reprints will keep that imprint name, and select picture books and board books imported from the European minedition publishing program, which is keeping its name, will be published as minedition in the US. “We looked for a name that was a nod to its forebear, honoring the distinguished minedition tradition that Michael Neugebauer and his team in Europe and Hong Kong built, and that also reflected the […]

Hachette Book Group is launching Phenomenal Media Books, to be led by Phenomenal Media founder and ceo Meena Harris. The line will “develop and acquire works from underrepresented voices across multiple genres, fiction and nonfiction, and for audiences of all ages, from children to adults.” Titles will be published in collaboration with Grand Central and Little, Brown Children’s (the latter of which has published children’s books by Harris). Besides Harris, acquisitions and editorial decisions will be made by Phenomenal Media head of content & entertainment Juliet Liu; Little, Brown Children’s vp & editorial director Farrin Jacobs (for young adult/children’s projects); […]