As expected, Amazon has announced another publishing line, for mysteries and thrillers. Thomas & Mercer (named for streets that flank the company’s Seattle headquarters) is Amazon’s fifth imprint and will launch this fall with four titles by Kyle Mills, D.M. Annechino, John Rector and Blake Crouch co-writing with J.A. Konrath. The release also appears to confirm Victoria Griffith as publisher of all of Amazon’s in-house imprints. Release Tyndale House is launching a Digital First imprint that does just what the name proclaims: publish ebook originals. They will launch with in July with four inspirational novels and one work of nonfiction. […]
New Imprints
Amazon Launches Romance Imprint, with More Genre Lines to Come
Amazon is launching another imprint, Montlake Romance (named for a Seattle neighborhood), which will publish “a broad range of frontlist titles in popular romance sub-genres, including romantic suspense and contemporary and historic romance novels, as well as fantasy and paranormal.” The first announced author is two-time RITA winner Connie Brockway, whose THE OTHER GUY’S BRIDE will be published this fall. They say it will “be available to North American readers in Kindle, print and audio formats at www.amazon.com, as well as at national and independent booksellers,” and Amazon tells us her print edition will be published as a trade paperback, […]
Briefs: Borders HQ Asking Price Slashed; ‘Mirkwood’ Lawsuit Settled; Publisher Acquisitions; And More
Agree Realty, hit particularly hard by Borders’ bankruptcy as a result of owning 14 properties where the retailer held long-term listings, has slashed the asking price for the company’s Ann Arbor headquarters from $18.349 million to $10 million. Earlier this year Borders indicated it was seeking cheaper and smaller space in the suburban Detroit area, as the 330,000 square-foot headquarters used to house as many as 1800 employees, but that number is down to 500 or less. AnnArbor.com The Tolkien Estate settled its lawsuit against author Stephen Hilliard, whose novel Mirkwood features JRR Tolkien as a character. The estate argued […]
Hachette Adds Another Nashville Imprint; F+W Adds Crime Imprint By Acquiring Tyrus Books
Hachette Book Group is launching a faith-based imprint called Jericho Books, launching in summer 2012. Led by publisher Wendy Grisham, the line will be part of the company’s Nashville division, which includes Faith Words and Center Street. She has been director of publishing for Hachette UK’s Hodder Faith imprint since 2007. Prior to that she was publishing director for EMEA, acting international publishing director at Alpha International, and rights manager at Random House UK. Grisham will work in Nashville, reporting to svp Rolf Zettersten, and “will continue to collaborate with the Hodder Faith team in the UK to acquire books, […]
People, Etc.
Dallas-based literary agent David Hale Smith has joined Inkwell Management as an agent, bringing along his list featuring crime, suspense and thriller writers as well as literary fiction and nonfiction that ranges from narrative history and business to health & wellness and cookbooks. InkWell partner Michael Carlisle says in the announcement, “Inkwell’s success has come from the collegial atmosphere among our colleagues and the quality of our clients. It is with special pleasure that we invited David Hale Smith to join our ranks. He represents some of the best young writers of our time with whom we will be working […]
Deepak Chopra to Set Up Imprint at Crown’s Harmony Books
Deepak Chopra will work with his longtime publishers at the Crown Publishing Group to create a Deepak Chopra Books imprint housed within Harmony Books, launching in 2012. The goal is to publish “important, innovative non-fiction books by visionary authors who are committed to enhancing people’s lives”–so books from other people, initiated and recommended by him. Chopra says in the release “together we will build a vibrant new publishing home for thought leaders who are committed to transforming people’s lives and who are on the cutting edge in providing new perspectives and solutions to the challenges that all humans face.” Chopra […]