![]() ![]() Penguin Young Readers has established Rocky Pond Books, an imprint for fiction and nonfiction with a focus on mental health and social-emotional learning.Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House UK, has established Torva, devoted to publishing hardcover nonfiction “that will change the future.” The publisher, Susanna Wadeson, said, “Torva will be the home for expert voices who reimagine the status quo, authors who will tackle big ideas head on, from geopolitics to science, business to personal development.” Learn more. Sugar23 already had a partnership with HMH Books & Media (now part of HarperCollins) all newly acquired books from Sugar23 will be published with Penguin Random House going forward. It will publish both fiction and nonfiction and be supported by Sugar23’s in-house production and branding teams. The new imprint is a collaboration with Sugar23, a media platform founded by an Academy Award–winning producer and manager. Penguin Random House launches Sugar23 Books.( See this NPD Books chart.) So it’s not surprising to see Random House launching Random House Worlds, an imprint dedicated entirely to licensed book publishing, featuring properties such as Star Wars, Minecraft, and Garfield. In the children’s market alone, one in three books sold in the US features a licensed character, and such books have been growing in market share. Random House establishes imprint dedicated to licensed book publishing.Its mandate: to “create books that remake what is literary books that reimagine genre books that reposition our thinking about how we know what we know.” The imprint will “decenter colonial modes of literature and thought” and also tackle our “precipitous climate catastrophe.” Learn more. Alchemy is led by poet and novelist Dionne Brand and will publish two to three fiction and nonfiction titles per year. Knopf Canada launches Alchemy publishing program.“We’ve discovered an audience hungry for ideas that don’t fall into ideologically neat buckets and which challenge the status quo on both sides of the political aisle.” “For some time now we have been drawn to books that don’t fit on a business or political imprint, such as John McWhorter’s Woke Racism or Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying’s A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century,” said Portfolio’s editor-in-chief, Niki Papadopoulos. ![]() The imprint will be housed under PRH’s Portfolio. Thesis will publish “urgent idea-driven nonfiction by thought leaders, journalists, and experts with a strong point of view,” starting in spring 2023 with Struggle Sessions by Nellie Bowles.The first titles will be Iain Reid’s novel We Spread and nonfiction title The Long Road Home by Debra Thompson. The imprint will be dedicated to publishing the best literary fiction and nonfiction from Canada and around the world. Simon & Schuster Canada launches Scribner Canada.The re-launched imprint, housed under Simon & Schuster, will focus on page-to-screen adaptations and build on MTV series and personalities. ![]() Remember that Big Five houses typically require an agent if you want your project to be considered they don’t accept unsolicited submissions. ![]() New traditional publishing imprints (Big Five) Each was mentioned in a 2022 issue of The Hot Sheet at the time of the announcement. The following is a roundup of new publishers and agents announced in 2022. ![]()
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