Philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls Melinda French Gates has partnered with Flatiron Books for a new nonfiction imprint, Moment of Lift Books. The line will launch with three titles in 2023, featuring books “written by experts, advocates, and authors working across a broad range of fields to advance equity for women and girls.” Gates’s own recent book was titled, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, and the imprint was announced by evp editorial development at Macmillan Will Schwalbe, who edited Gates’s book. “When I asked Melinda about a second book,” Schwalbe says […]
New Imprints
Sara Gran Launches Dreamland Books
Author Sara Gran has founded the independent publisher Dreamland Books. The publisher will release Gran’s forthcoming books, beginning with The Book of the Most Precious Substance in trade paperback on February 8, 2022, as well as two to four titles per year by other authors. According to a statement, “Dreamland Books was born both out of Gran’s life-long love of books (and years of working with them as an author, collector, retail bookseller, and rare-book dealer) and her frustration with the increasingly corporate culture of the new, mega-conglomerate publishing houses. The goals of the press are both creative—to publish extraordinary […]
Zando Announces Imprints With Lena Waithe, Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn and Lena Waithe will become publishers of their own imprints at Zando, the independent publisher led by ceo Molly Stern. Flynn and Waithe are the first “catalyst partners” announced in Zando’s plan to partner with influential figures and institutions to publish and promote books. Catalyst partners have a revenue share, dependent on the success of the books, and each imprint plans to publish four to six books over three years, beginning in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. Modeled from Stern’s experience with Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Hogarth, Zando editors select submissions that might be appropriate for a […]
Imprints: Astra Publishing Forms Children’s Division
Astra announced the launch of its children’s division, Astra Books for Young Readers, which will house one new imprint–Astra Young Readers–and five existing imprints: Calkins Creek, Hippo Park (Jill Davis’s newly-named imprint), Kane Press, mineditionUS, and Wordsong. Astra coo Ben Schrank said: “Astra Publishing House now has six very special children’s book imprints that cover books for all ages and children’s interests, from board books for babies and toddlers and picture books to nonfiction and history, poetry, middle-grade, and young adult books and so we felt it was time to identify and celebrate them with a new children’s book division: […]
Imprints: More PRH UK Lines to Publish Paperbacks As Penguins
At Penguin Random House UK, three paperback lines will publish under the Penguin brand and colophon in the future, to “leverage” the better-known brand. Transworld’s Black Swan and Corgi imprints and Cornerstone’s Arrow will all make the switch, the Bookseller reports. But it is a branding change only: “There are no internal structural implications to this development. Nor are any roles in the company affected by it.”
Harper Puts HMH Lines Into Four Imprints, Announces Layoffs
Harper Collins announced further details on Tuesday about their integration of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, organizing their titles into four imprints, and promising those lines will “see increased focus and investment, with the majority of acquiring editors remaining in place.” There were unspecified layoffs as well: “Some employees will be departing Harper Collins as a result of the changes, but the majority of HMH Books & Media employees were retained.” CEO Brian Murray said in the announcement, “I want to thank everyone involved in this transition for their professionalism and support over the last few months. We wish all our departing […]