New Imprint: Stonefruit Studio
Sourcebooks has announced a new children’s and YA imprint, Stonefruit Studio, and plans to publish 16 to 24 “distinctively creative children’s books across all age categories and formats” annually, including middle grade, YA, graphic novelws, and non-fiction by “authors and illustrators [who] can showcase their bold narrative voices and distinct styles that bring the joy of reading to children of all ages.”
Ben Rosenthal and Mabel Hsu will be editorial directors; they were previously at HarperCollins, and moved to Sourcebooks in Spring 2024. Celeste Knudsen will be senior art director and Mikaela Luke, editorial assistant. Rosenthal said, “Stonefruit Studio is about celebrating stories that are fresh, diverse, and unexpected — in other words, ‘stories that refuse to be eaten politely.’”
Their first three books, to debut in Summer 2026, include a “spooky, tech-twisted” middle-grade series by Erin Entrada Kelly & Eliot Schrefer and a YA novel by J.A.Morgenstein described as an “Enola Holmes-meets-Buffy fantasy adventure.” Later books include a YA romantasy trilogy starting with Firstborn by first novelist M.J. Hastings.
For more, see the story in Publishers Weekly.
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