Mayo Clinic Press has launched a children’s books imprint, Mayo Clinic Press Kids, “which provides engaging mental and physical wellness content for children.” Books for pre-K through YA are “created in partnership with physicians and practitioners from The Mayo Clinic Children’s Center,” according to a release. Books forthcoming in 2023 include My Life Beyond Depression, Spacecare: Medicine in Microgravity, and Period.: The Quick, All-Inclusive Guide for Every Uterus. In the UK, the expanded Black & White Publishing Group led by Tim Whiting adds two veterans: Susanna Abbott joins as publishing director, for lifestyle non-fiction (she was formerly publishing director at Vermilion) […]
New Imprints
Hodder-Williams Launches Bedford Square Publishers, with “Adaptable Publishing Model”
Two UK publishing executives have launched a new publisher and acquired a small press. Bedford Square Publishers is run by former Hodder & Stoughton CEO Jamie Hodder-Williams, who left the company in the spring, and former John Murray sales strategy director Laura Fletcher, and they will publish 30 titles in their first year in “reading group fiction, crime fiction, smart-thinking books and wellness.” (Hodder-Williams registered the company name in March 2022.) Hodder-Williams tells the Bookseller that the company will “offer authors an adaptable publishing model,” which may include profit sharing as well as traditional advance and royalty payments. Bedford Square […]
Charlesbridge Publishing Acquires Move Books
Charlesbridge Publishing has acquired Move Books, a children’s imprint with a “mission to move more boys to read with high-interest middle-grade fiction.” The deal includes Move backlist titles, which will be distributed under Charlesbridge starting April 2023. Going forward, the company will launch Move founder Eileen Robinson joined Charlesbridge in October as editorial director of Charlesbridge Moves, a new middle-grade imprint that will launch in 2024. Robinson will also edit board books and picture books for the Charlesbridge list as executive dditor. She said, “Charlesbridge Moves will excite middle-grade and chapter-book readers with adventure, mystery, and fun, giving them the […]
Imprints: Entangled’s Red Tower Books
Entangled’s Red Tower Books, a new adult fiction imprint focused on romantic fantasy and science fiction, first appeared in our digital pages almost a month ago with the acquisition of Rebecca Yarros’s new adult fantasy FOURTH WING, but now the company has provided full details. Molly Majumder is editorial director, and the company says the line “will champion feminist and empowered perspectives in the fantasy and science fiction space, while also enfolding in…romance.”
HQN Books Relaunches as Canary Street Press
Harlequin’s flagship romance imprint HQN is relaunching as Canary Street Press (named for Toronto’s Canary District, a historic area in downtown that has undergone a renewal), and “reflecting its expansion to publish a greater variety of modern, commercial love stories.” They write in a release that they plan to publish in trade paperback and hardcover formats, as well as mass market paperbacks. The first title under the rebranded imprint will be NEVER NEVER by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher, available in a trade print edition for the first time, releasing in February 2023. Loriana Sacilotto, evp and publisher of Harlequin […]
Imprints: Little, Brown Ink
Little, Brown Children’s is launching Little, Brown Ink, a graphic novel imprint for young readers focused on “authentic, visual stories that readers will relate to, learn from, and return to again and again.” Andrea Colvin, editorial director, graphic publishing, will lead the imprint, which will publish approximately 20 titles a year, both fiction and nonfiction, ranging from early readers to middle grade to young adult. Existing Little, Brown Children’s graphic novels will now fall under the imprint. Megan Tingley, president & publisher, Little, Brown Children’s said, “Under the expert guidance of Andrea Colvin, LBYR’s graphic novel publishing has grown exponentially, […]