Sentences with phrase «literary imprint»

The 15th imprint of the Amazon Publishing group — which already includes the translation powerhouse AmazonCrossing, the literary imprint Little A, Two Lions for children, Skyscape for the YA readership, Thomas & Mercer for mysteries and thrillers, and several more — is a distinctive and potentially ingenious demonstration of what Bruder means.

The original novel also was the launch title in 2009 for Haikasoru, VIZ Media's unique literary imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy for English - speaking audiences.

Fred Ramey and Greg Michalson founded indie publisher Unbridled Books in 2003 after working together for BlueHen Books, a former literary imprint of Putnam.

The winner will receive $ 5,000 in prize money and a publishing contract featuring a $ 2,000 advance with Little A, Amazon Publishing's literary imprint.

Foreign publishers have already left the country or are in the brink of doing so: Random House Mondadori closed its Venezuelan office a while ago and Alfaguara [literary imprint of Santillana] has reduced costs to the minimum.

Freehand Books was established in 2007 as the literary imprint of the academic publisher Broadview Press with a very simple mandate: to publish excellent Canadian literature.

When selective literary imprint mostly known for nonfiction buys a debut in a 10 - way auction, the book business takes notice.

It was put out by a literary imprint, Little A, which Amazon maintains in its New York office.

San Francisco, CA, April 14, 2014 — VIZ Media's Haikasoru literary imprint supports the upcoming release of the gripping sci - fi action film, Edge of Tomorrow with the release of an official movie tie - in novel on April 29th.

Not exact matches

Powerful New York??? based literary agent Andrew Wylie has unveiled his own e-book imprint, Odyssey Editions.

One recent winner of a prestigious poetry award admits that the strongest influences on his work are Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan, none of whom write poetry themselves, but all of whom have left lasting imprints on literary theory.

«Mark helped me to get a top literary agent a while back, and now my novel, «The Wrong Hand» (a psychological thriller) is published with an imprint / division of Penguin Books called Michael Joseph that is «principally interested in publishing Top Ten Bestsellers».

Joining CreateSpace, Kindle Singles, and Kindle Direct Publishing, is the new service Kindle Worlds, the literary journal Day One, eight new Amazon Publishing imprints, and the launch of Amazon Publishing in the UK and Germany.

Through a series of events, Lisa acquired a literary agent who sold the rights to the book to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Amazon also reportedly hired literary agent Laurence Kirshbaum, once the chief of the former Time - Warner books, to head up another new imprint.

This includes publishing house acquisitions staff, independent or small imprint staff, literary agents, literary managers, film and television producers, game producers, online content providers, and anyone else who can offer authors either representation or a contract for some or all of a given book's content rights.»

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

Top literary agents are also intimate with the individual preferences, strengths, and weaknesses of publishing houses (allowing them to present you and your book to the perfect editors and imprints).

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

Then, as Amazon Publishing — the bookselling and self - publishing giant's strictly traditional publishing imprint — gained a foothold in the publishing industry by wooing even some of the most stalwart naysayers, it seemed as though the literary world is now ready to let the start - up publisher join them at the grown - ups» table.

GoodEReader.com has recently covered the ambitious and forward - thinking agendas of literary agencies and traditional publishing imprints that are exploring more options in the realm of digital publishing.

Some major publishing houses are experimenting with no - advance ebook - only imprints, and several noted literary... [Read more...]

Fatima Farheen Mirza talks about her first novel, A Place For Us, which is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

Now, with eleven distinct imprints and a staff of editors nearly thirty - strong, Kirshbaum is leaving Amazon Publishing and returning to his former role as a literary agent.

StoryFront, the company's short story imprint, not only will focus on publishing high quality short fiction, but will also be the source of a weekly digital literary journal that will specifically feature short stories and poetry from new and veteran authors.

Cohen, a Rolling Stone contributing editor deftly achieves the imprint's goal of illuminating the business experience in a literary manner by spotlighting (and occasionally exaggerating) the quirky...

A Place for Us (June 12, 2018) is her debut novel and is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

While information about AmazonCrossing's terms is hard to come by, literary agent Jane Dystel told the Seattle Weekly last year that «We're seeing advances somewhere in the range of $ 10,000 or $ 20,000,» from Amazon's non-translation imprints.

In terms of fiction, Amazon's imprints have had far more luck with genre titles than with literary fiction, and AmazonCrossing is no different — the successes it most often touts are mysteries, thrillers, and romances.

When Ed Park — the New York - based novelist and editor who launched the Little A literary fiction imprint — left the company last fall, it was tempting see his departure as a nail in Amazon Publishing's coffin: the New York Times, for instance, ran a headline that described the move as a «major setback» for Amazon publishing.

As Amazon's efforts to establish more traditional, literary - minded, New York - based publishers failed, its Seattle - based imprints which were focused on the Kindle and more commercial fiction were showing another path forward.

Algonquin Young Readers is an imprint of Algonquin Books dedicated to publishing works of the same literary merit and enduring qualities that are hallmarks of the Algonquin tradition.

Almost 20 years later, Joylynn has been the content development editor for Triple Crown Publications; she was the acquisitions and developmental editor for Carl Weber's Urban Christian imprint for 10 years; she's agented authors who have book deals with Simon and Schuster, Kensington, and Urban Books; and Joylynn has done ghostwriting, write - behinds, and literary consulting (both freelance and for publishing houses).

In 2012, The Write Thought launched a unique book publishing venture which gives selected literary agents and editors their own imprint.

Under the Sunacumen imprint, we publish only those works that meet our strict standards for literary excellence and freshness.

It has published over 50 book objects, including the literary magazine Sleepingfish and the acquired 3rd bed imprint.

The winner will receive a # 20,000 advance and publishing contract with PRH imprint Century and the services of literary agent Luigi Bonomi.

The imprint will establish exclusive publishing partnerships with agents, literary estates and other rights holders.

He has had a varied career within the book business; as a literary agent, as VP of Marketing, a senior publicist, a member of the Board of Directors at Seal Books in Toronto and just recently as Publisher of his own self - publishing business imprint Brilliant Idea Books.

As reported by Publishing Perspectives «Editor - in - Chief Ed Nawotka, the most prolific literary translation house in the US is AmazonCrossing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing.

Doubleday Ireland An imprint of Transworld Ireland, Doubleday Ireland, aims to publish the best literary fiction and non-fiction authors.

Grup 62, with a total of 18 publishing imprints, covers the full range of literary genres and all types of publishing.

On Sunday, news broke that Amazon has hired former Time Warner (s twx) Book Group CEO Larry Kirshbaum, who is expected to create a slew of imprints that would put Amazon into young adult, literary fiction, business and general non-fiction.

Instead of avoiding errors to begin with, the publishing industry may choose to fix errors after they're made — but only if authors, especially big - name authors with ruthless literary agents, complain loudly until publishers have entire imprints» E-books repaired.

Although provocative, ``... a handful of agents, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said they're worried that contracts from print - first imprints will increasingly come with clauses indicating that the publisher makes no guarantee on format» (meaning, no guarantee the publisher would produce a print version of a work), what stood out for us was that literary agents are fulfilling this watchdog role for authors... an advantage most indie authors don't enjoy.

Spanish and international literary authors will continue to be published under the Mondadori imprint.

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In 1971 Ecco was spun off from the literary magazine Antaeus (founded in Tangier by Daniel Halpern with Paul Bowles), and it has been an imprint at HarperCollins since 1999.

Others noted situations where traditional publishing is the only way to go, one being category romances (where the readers do buy based off the publisher or imprint) and the other being literary novels (where it's harder to find and connect to readers).

Now he's going to Penguin as an executive editor, and because his imprint was the only literary fiction home at Amazon's publishing house, it creates a vacuum the reflects the tension between Amazon the publisher and (other) traditional publishers, between commercial fiction and literary fiction, and between Amazon and authors.