Getting Traditionally Published

The company will license Entangled’s backlist to develop titles for TV, film, and video games.

Compass Rose is a new publisher that seeks to work closely with independent bookstores to acquire, publish, and market books.

The biggest of the Big Five, Penguin Random House, has reported that sales were up by 8.5 percent during the first half of 2024.

It seeks books that are “anti-monarchist, post-capitalist, decolonized, and anti-authoritarian in general.”

The outcome of submitting short work for publication is never in your control, but a thoughtful, realistic strategy can improve your odds.

A proposal is often necessary to present your nonfiction idea to agents and publishers, but the process offers important side benefits as well.

Asking yourself these questions can reveal whether your big idea is well suited to be a book—vs. a podcast, newsletter, or something else.

Flatiron Books, a division of Big Five publisher Macmillan, will launch Pine & Cedar Books next year.

After a challenging 2023, Big Five publisher HarperCollins is enjoying a more successful fiscal 2024.

Orbit (Hachette) has launched Run for It, an imprint that will publish current Orbit horror authors as well as new ones, starting in 2025.

Perfect Bound is a company that helps match small publishers with printers to create faster and cheaper printing runs.

Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster) is launching Lemonada Books to publish books based on podcasts coming out of Lemonada Media.

The HarperCollins imprint HarperAlley, which publishes comics and graphic novels for the children’s market, will start publishing for adults.

Panick Entertainment will focus on publishing comics and graphic novels that can be turned into films, TV, games, and other media.

Unnamed Press has launched Smith & Taylor Classics, devoted to publishing trade paperback editions of lesser-known public-domain novels.

Five publisher Macmillan is launching 23rd Street Books to “deliver graphic novels that span styles and genres.”

It’s not just about the money. It’s also about the best plan to get the book to readers.

Doug Seibold, the founder of Evanston-based Agate Publishing, is doing his part to foster publishing careers in America’s heartland.

Despite the foreboding headline, there’s good news to be found in the latest diversity counts among the biggest New York publishers.

Re-Lit will re-issue out-of-print works from creators from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

DK Red will focus on lifestyle publishing and narrative nonfiction and is part of DK’s recently renamed adult division, DK Living.

The imprint is described as “commercial, voice-driven fiction with a focus on fantasy, speculative fiction, romance and genre-adjacent fiction.”

While some encourage using AI to boost efficiency, concerns remain over how AI is trained and its effect on creative professions.

Harper Influence is a new, general nonfiction imprint that will begin releasing titles this fall.

Keila Shaheen, the self-published author who has sold more than a million copies of her book, is now working with a Big Five publisher.