New Imprints

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); […]

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) […]