Entangled ceo and founder Liz Pelletier and Sheryl Clark have launched a production company, Premeditated Productions, which has a three-year first-look TV and film deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Clark was formerly president of Crooked Highway. The company will license Entangled’s backlist, to develop titles for tv, film, and video games. A series based on Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, two books from the bestselling The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros published by Entangled’s Red Tower, is currently in the works at Amazon (preceding the new production company). Pelletier said, “Romance and fantasy have always been incredibly popular, but today […]
Distribution: SPCK
SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) Group moved their sales and distribution in the US and Canada to Two Rivers Distribution as of July 1, from Baker & Taylor Publisher Services.
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New Books Publishing August 20
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Jodi Picoult, Nnedi Okorafor, and Bridget Collins, while Moon Unit Zappa, Andrew Smith, and more publish nonfiction. Also out this week is A PAIR OF WINGS by Carole Hopson, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 30 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-20 6 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-20 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out August‘s 105 fiction releases, 18 works […]
Acquisitions: Mare Nostrum Group Buys Eurospan
Mare Nostrum Group has acquired academic sales and distribution company Eurospan, including all asset and businesses, in a deal that will close August 14. Eurospan’s parent United Independent Distributors went into bankruptcy administration on July 24. Mare Nostrum Group’s distribution partner, Wiley, will take on the Eurospan client inventory in their facility in Bognor Regis. Wiley will also offer print-on-demand options to the group’s clients. Managing Director of Mare Nostrum Group David Pickering, said, “We are delighted to be able to offer the Eurospan team and their publisher clients a home at Mare Nostrum Group. In the past we have […]