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 […]
New Imprints
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, […]
Imprints: Erewhon, Golden Notebook
Kensington Publishing has acquired sci-fi/fantasy publisher Erewhon Books, which will continue as an imprint of Kensington. Publisher Sarah Guan and her team will stay with the line. (Co-founder Liz Gorinsky left Erewhon in March.) Having recently moved distributed to PGW from Workman, Erewhon’s titles will be taken over by Kensington’s distributor Penguin Random House Publisher Services next year. Kensington CEO Steve Zacharius says in the announcement, “The diverse, high-quality list Erewhon has built and the level of support they’ve been able to offer their authors as a small, but effective and passionate team is impressive. It also very much aligns […]
Imprints: Oliver Rhodes Launches Storm Publishing
Bookouture founder and former ceo Oliver Rhodes has launched Storm Publishing, a new digital publishing company that will “publish adult commercial fiction in ebook, audio and print-on-demand paperback globally,” looking to buy world English rights at a minimum. The company writes in a release that it plans to pay “an author royalty of 50% of net receipts on both ebook and audio formats,” though they do not pay advances. Their standard contract term is 10 years. Hachette UK acquired Bookouture in 2017. Rhodes serves as managing director of the new company. Claire Bord will join as deputy managing director in […]