Getting Traditionally Published

It will publish Latinx/Latine/Hispanic authors in English and Spanish, both fiction and nonfiction.

Delacorte, a division of Penguin Random House, is launching an imprint dedicated to contemporary love stories for teenagers.

The founder of Belt says small presses like hers can’t survive on sales alone when using a distributor.

Hell’s Hundred will join the publisher’s existing imprints of Soho Crime, Soho Press, and Soho Teen.

The publisher partly attributed its sales increase to “strong market growth for downloadable audiobooks,” as well as a new Spotify partnership.

Bloom Books enters into bespoke publishing agreements with indie authors and measures growth by expanding readership, not title count.

The publisher has announced an expansion of its nonfiction program into popular culture and popular science.

Comics pros Jim Krueger and Steve Orlando have launched a science fiction and fantasy publisher, Gungnir.

Publishers Weekly crunched the numbers on their 2023 hardcover lists and found that the Big Five held about 85% of bestseller slots overall.

In December, the LAPL, the fifth-largest public library system in the United States, announced its acquisition of Angel City Press.

The initiative was announced by outgoing CEO Michael Pietsch as part of his annual letter to authors.

Conservative publisher Regnery has become a home to authors that the Big Five publishers don’t want or have otherwise dropped.

Summit Books first existed from 1976 to 1991 and published authors such as Elie Wiesel, James Baldwin, and Oliver Sacks.

The independent “genre agnostic” publisher, based in Bend, Oregon, will offer six to 12 titles per year, both fiction and nonfiction.

The Los Angeles–based publisher, established about eight years ago, has announced a children’s imprint, Atelier Enfants.

The publisher was founded by Louise Hay in 1984 and has a backlist of 1,500 titles.

When seeking an agent, it helps to research what they've actually repped and sold versus what they claim they’re looking for.

The Yale Review and Yale University Press are launching the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a biennial international prize for nonfiction.

Is it the changing of the guard or the changing of publishing culture—and what do such changes mean to authors?

Screen Door Press will publish “thought-provoking books featuring…diverse views from throughout the Black diaspora.”

It doesn’t bode well for the publishing industry’s future when acquisition decisions are based solely on an author’s past sales history.

Fadel quietly revised their white paper after our reporting. No longer will you find any mention of PRH using AI for acquisitions.

A well-crafted book blurb gives us just enough to care, to empathize with the protagonist’s plight, and leaves us wanting just a bit more.

Disney Hyperion and pan-African entertainment company Kugali have launched KugaliInk, a graphic novel imprint focused on middle-grade readers.

Simon & Schuster’s last public earnings report revealed an earnings dip of 13 percent in the most recent quarter.