New Imprints

Knopf Canada has launched Alchemy, a new publishing program led by poet and novelist Dionne Brand. Brand will work with publishing director Lynn Henry and publisher Martha Kanya-Forstner to publish two-to-three fiction and nonfiction titles per year. Elsewhere, Soft Skull Press will partner with fiction writing community Kimbilio, “acquiring up to two books a year from Kimbilio fellows and faculty members” over the next three years, with the first title publishing in late 2023. Editor-in-chief Mensah Demary will select the manuscripts, which will receive a publishing contract and $10,000 prize. Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary represented the partnership. Established […]

Random House has launched Random House Worlds, “a new publishing imprint dedicated entirely to licensed book publishing.” The imprint will publish branded titles in any genre or format from pop culture properties including Star Wars, Minecraft, and Garfield. The frontlist and backlist of these brands, which were previously published by Del Rey and other imprints, will move to Random House Worlds in 2023. VP, deputy publisher of Del Rey Keith Clayton will also lead the new imprint as publishing director. Joining him are business director, licensing & brands Kristin Conte, who comes from NBCUniversal; editorial director, nonfiction & illustrated Sarah […]

The Atlantic magazine and Zando are partnering to launch Atlantic Editions, a new imprint that will publish six to 12 nonfiction titles a year in trade paperback starting in January 2023. Each book will “will feature long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, each devoted to a single topic, and will draw from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine’s rich archive.” Inaugural titles include On Misdirection by Megan Garber; On Womanhood by Sophie Gilbert, and On BTS by Lenika Cruz. (Once upon a time the magazine published books as Atlantic Monthly Press. The press separated from the magazine in 1986, and […]

UK ebook and paperback publisher Canelo will partner with Readerlink to launch an imprint in the US. Readerlink’s Printers Row Publishing Group will serve as the exclusive North American publisher of Canelo titles, under the Canelo US imprint. “Print has been a huge growth story for us over the last three years,” Canelo managing director Iain Millar said in a release. “Although we started as a digital publisher, print is now core to everything we do. We’ve been thinking about the best way of getting our titles into the US market for some time and are absolutely delighted to partner […]

HarperCollins Focus will launch a new imprint, Harper Select, which “will focus exclusively on memoir and narrative nonfiction titles.” Senior vp and publisher Matt Baugher will acquire, manage, and edit each title, the first of which is slated to publish in November. “My vision is to hand-select an exclusive number of projects each year that are uniquely positioned to capture the interest of the reader through amazing experiences and the people who’ve lived them,” Baugher said. “Harper Select will be a natural extension of the HarperCollins Focus overall position in the marketplace—one that equips readers to lead a life of significance, […]