In the UK, Ebury has partnered with entrepreneur Steven Bartlett and his media, marketing, and investment company Flight Group on a new imprint called Flight Books. The Bookseller writes that the imprint will publish guests from Bartlett’s podcast “The Diary Of A CEO.” First titles will include a memoir from ultra-marathon athlete Russ Cook and a book by Codie Sanchez, founder and chief executive of Contrarian Thinking. Joel Rickett, managing director of Ebury and Quadrille, said: “Steven is the ultimate connector and talent-spotter, and we’re loving the way he’s discovering potential authors to build the list. The opportunity is to […]
New Imprints
Pave Publishing House Launches, Partners with S&S
Media company Pave Studios will launch a book publishing venture, Pave Publishing House, which “will work with emerging and established creators as well as existing authors.” “Pave Publishing House is putting storytellers at the forefront with our innovative business model because we understand that when creators succeed, everyone succeeds,” founder Max Cutler said in a release. “By meeting creators’ audiences where they are, we’re reimagining distribution and capitalizing on the massive podcast audience where monetization is limited to drive more revenue back to creators.” In a co-publishing agreement with the Simon & Schuster imprint for Pave branded titles, “the two […]
Saturday Books On The New “New Adult”
VP, editorial director Sara Goodman shared more details about Saturday Books, the new “New Adult” imprint from St. Martin’s Press that sits alongside YA imprint Wednesday Books. The imprint seems to be a way of reclaiming and redefining the term “New Adult,” which came to describe steamy romances about–and with the intended audience of–people in their early 20’s. The moniker has fallen out of favor in the industry in recent years: In 2013 at the category’s height, PM recorded 51 New Adult deals; in 2023 that number dropped to 7. Though the current success of authors who cross age categories […]
Tara Weikum Becomes Publisher at New Harper Children’s Imprint
Harper Children’s will create a new to-be-named imprint, with Tara Weikum serving as vice president, publisher. The imprint will launch in winter 2025 and will publish “fiction that sits at the corner of commercial and literary for middle grade and teen readers.” Also working on the imprint are Sarah Homer, who has been promoted to editor, and executive editors Kristin Rens and Amy Cloud.
Imprints: Saturday Books
St. Martin’s is launching a new imprint, Saturday Books, that will specialize in “new adult” titles for 18-30 year old readers. The Wednesday Books team, vp and editorial director Sara Goodman and vp and associate publisher Eileen Rothschild, will lead the imprint. First titles will debut in fall 2025, with 10-12 planned per year. The publisher describes the imprint’s identity as “commercial and voice-driven fiction with a special focus on fantasy, speculative fiction, romance and genre-adjacent fiction.” Authors on the roster so far include Kristen Ciccarelli, Betty Cayouette, Talia Hibbert, Isabel Ibañez, Julia Jones, Kim Liggett, Elle McNicoll, Stephanie Perkins, […]
Authors Equity Announces First 10 Titles, Starting In September
Authors Equity announced their first 10 planned titles, with the first due in September. The main commonality, as they write in the announcement, is “that these are all creators driven to try something new.” Among the first releases are books by entrepreneur and business/marketing guru Seth Godin, self-help author Rachel Hollis, and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman. Authors Equity will also publish the James Frey novel (Next to Heaven) that recently sold for TV rights next summer. Their other fiction offerings include a romance “every couple of months” from 831 Stories, starting Authors Equity off on September 10 with Big Fan […]