Zando launches imprint with Sarah Jessica Parker
SJP Lit will leverage “her far-reaching celebrity to connect both emerging and established authors with new and eager readers.”
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Patrick Rothfuss launches Underthing Press
Grim Oak Press, a small press, has partnered with Patrick Rothfuss to create a new imprint, Underthing Press. The first project will be Digger: The Complete Collection by Ursula Vernon.
Zando launches a new imprint: Get Lifted Books
Get Lifted Film Co., led by John Legend, Mike Jackson, and Ty Stiklorius, will partner with still quite new publisher Zando to create an imprint that “will leverage their significant reach to identify, develop, and promote new voices and storytellers.”
New imprints and agents announced in 2021
We’ve rounded up every agent and publisher announcement mentioned in Hot Sheet during 2021 and categorized them for browsing.
New York’s Gagosian gallery launches new imprint
The influential art gallery is collaborating with author Emma Cline on Picture Books, which will pair authors with visual artists on individual books.
Daily Wire launches conservative imprint
The conservative media outlet Daily Wire has started a publishing imprint, DW Books, that will begin publishing in spring 2022.
UK’s Unbound launches a new imprint for debut writers of color
Unbound Firsts will take on two writers of color every year for a debut work of either fiction or nonfiction.
Kensington launches cozy mystery imprint
Kensington Cozies will launch at the end of this year and feature stories with “little-to-no violence, profanity, or sex;
Grove Atlantic Partners With Roxane Gay on New Imprint
Roxane Gay Books will accept fiction and nonfiction and also take unagented work—until it becomes too overwhelming, Gay admitted in an interview with The New York Times