Getting Traditionally Published

In collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine and Hearst Books, Sourcebooks plans to launch Cosmo Reads in summer 2025, with four to six titles a year.

Macmillan has launched Fablelistik Editions, a new imprint that “creates bespoke renditions of contemporary and classic stories.”

With an optioned NYT bestseller under her belt, one author assumed she was on easy street—but every writing career has bumps in the road.

HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Lagardère have all seen increased profits in the first half of 2024, partly due to job cuts.

You don’t need an online presence to sell your first novel. Period.

Two Shores Press focuses on South Asian literature and is founded by Aananth Daksnamurthy, a graduate of NYU’s Center for Publishing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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.