Getting Traditionally Published

UK-based Quarto Publishing is launching a new gift book imprint in 2023 called Kaddo.

Podcast network Lemonada Media and Penguin Random House have partnered to launch the Lemonada Book Club podcast.

With a backlist of about 1,000 titles and 25 new titles per season, the imprint will publish books on arts and crafts.

Author and restaurateur Ayesha Curry is Zando’s latest high-profile publishing partner and will acquire fiction and nonfiction.

Based in San Antonio, Trinity University Press has launched Tinta Books and Terra Firma, both nonfiction imprints.

The unpredictable and subjective nature of publishing can look like incompetence to those outside the industry.

Tor Publishing Group will include Tor, Forge Books, Nightfire, Tor Teen, Starscape, and Tordotcom Publishing.

Tonic is a new nonfiction imprint that provides readers with “a toolkit to navigate everyday life.”

Publishing paths outside the Big Five are considered distinctly unattractive by the Department of Justice in its pre-trial brief.

The independent publisher has an open call for submissions for graphic novels from both writers and writer-illustrators.

Toronto writer Rebecca Eckler wants to make reading “less snobby” and already has an email newsletter with 35,000 subscribers.

In November 2021, the US Department of Justice moved to block, on antitrust grounds, the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House.

When Dana Canedy was hired by Simon & Schuster in 2020, it was the first time a Black woman had been put in charge of a major publishing imprint.

Positioned as a next-generation publishing event, PageBreak is an opportunity for the industry to gather and examine what’s next.

Book acquisition may start to trend toward books that inspire strong emotions in readers—and therefore more organic content on TikTok.

Memoirists have a lot of leeway in choosing a pitching strategy. But with freedom comes great responsibility, and it's easier to get into trouble when there isn't a tried-and-true formula to follow.

Parea seeks to publish books by new authors and help them find an audience by targeting influencers.

The imprint is a partnership with Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and will focus on publishing nonfiction work by Black and Brown authors.

The re-launched imprint, housed under Simon & Schuster, will focus on page-to-screen adaptations and build on MTV series and personalities.

Zando, established in 2020 and known for its big-name partnerships, has announced yet another: a partnership with Crooked Media, a liberal media company.

Twin Flame is a nonfiction imprint focused on “spirituality, tantra, relationships, and sexuality” that will publish up to two dozen books per year.

Soft Skull Press will acquire up to two books a year from Kimbilio fellows and faculty members over the next three years.

Alchemy is led by poet and novelist Dionne Brand and will publish two to three fiction and nonfiction titles per year.

Inflation and supply chain issues lead a long list of concerns facing the publishing industry.

Publishers are often accused of insufficiently supporting their midlist authors. The situation may be worse than usual.