Bonnier Books UK will launch Footnote Press in early 2022, “an independently run, disruptive publisher” planning on 10 to 15 books a year of “stimulating and politically-engaged fiction and non-fiction.” Former co-owner and business development director at the radical publishing collective Zed Books Vidisha Biswas is managing director, reporting to ceo Perminder Mann. Video games and esports industry veteran Sujoy Roy is a co-founder, “using his digital skills to drive customer conversion and retention, and exploring new ways of aiding discoverability through gamification.” Mann says in the announcement: “I was blown away by Vidisha and Sujoy’s vision for Footnote Press, […]
New Imprints
Inaugural Marysue Rucci Books List Announced
Marysue Rucci’s eponymous imprint with Scribner will launch in summer 2022 with four titles — Mother Noise: A Memoir by Cindy House and The Foundling by Ann Leary, both out in May, and Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark and The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda, both publishing in July. Additional forthcoming titles include The Queen from Another Country by Alice Hoffman, Rouge by Mona Awad, and two new novels by Laura Dave. “It’s a thrill and honor to launch my imprint at Scribner, with its illustrious history, extraordinary team, and commitment to publishing enduring works,” Rucci said. “As evidenced […]
Imprints: Melinda Gates Pairs with Flatiron
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 […]
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: […]