Liz Pelletier, publisher of Entangled Publishing, is Publishers Weekly’s 2024 Person of the Year.

Entangled Publishing—which includes genre imprints Red Tower, Entangled Teen, and Amara—had a breakout year in 2023 with the publication of bestseller Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Other notable titles include Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer and the Crave series by Tracy Wolff.

Pelletier founded Entangled in 2010 “to bridge the gap in the ...Read More

Ruoxi Chen has joined Putnam as executive editor after seven years at Tor. She will report to editor-in-chief Lindsay Sagnette, who told Publishers Weekly,

Ruoxi will draw on her deep experience in the speculative fiction space to bring exceptional crossover fantasy, romantasy, and science fiction titles for the general reader to the Putnam list… I look forward to watching her bring a new generation of talented storytellers to Putnam.

Chen ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Hachette Book Group has announced its purchase of Sterling Publishing from Barnes & Noble.

Sterling Publishing includes the imprints Union Square & Co., Union Square Kids, Boxer Books, Puzzlewright Press, plus stationery brands. Sterling’s output includes various genre books and gift editions of classic works.

B&N CEO James Daunt cited Union Square’s recent expansion and its need for more resources as a publisher. “Union Square has [outgrown] the infrastructure of ...Read More

An annotated version of Terry Pratchett’s 29th Discworld novel, Night Watch, will be released in Spring of 2025. The title will be released under Penguin Random House as a Penguin Modern Classic, recognizing Pratchett’s immense influence in the literary world as a genre author.

The edition will have a foreword by Rob Wilkins, managing director of Pratchett’s literary estate, and annotations by Dr David Lloyd and Dr Darryl Jones ...Read More

Diana Pho has been promoted to editorial director at Erewhon Books. Pho posted on social media,

Marking my upcoming 2-year anniversary at the company, I’m so, so thrilled to announce that I have been promoted…. Grateful to have the support from the Erewhon and Kensington Publishing teams as we level up!

Pho joined the company as executive editor in 2022. This promotion follows the departure of publisher Sarah Guan earlier ...Read More

Matthew Reardon, AKA JRH Lawless, has withdrawn his candidacy for secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) special election. While there are now no official candidates, Steven D. Brewer is a write-in candidate for the position.

SFWA is holding the special election for president and secretary following the resignations of president Jeffe Kennedy and vice-president Chelsea Mueller, among others. Secretary Anthony W. Eichenlaub is currently interim president. ...Read More

Canadian independent horror publisher DarkLit Press appears to be defunct; their website and social media accounts are no longer functional, and messages sent to their emails bounce.

Some of their authors, including Steve Stred, have reported problems in recent months, including unpaid royalties, a lack of royalty statements, communication difficulties, and other issues.

DarkLit was founded in 2021 by Andrew Robert, but he left the company earlier this year, with ...Read More

Kerry C. Byrne, CEO of Canadian magazine Augur and the more recently established Tales & Feathers, has announced a restructuring of the Augur Society organization, including magazine pay rates. Toria Liao has been named chief operating officer while longtime Augur co-editor-in-chief Terese Mason Pierre has been named chief program officer.

Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers Magazine will combine teams and move away from an Editor-in-Chief model, delegating workload. Augur ...Read More

Apex Book Company has announced a new imprint, Violet Lichen Books, headed by editor-in-chief Marissa van Uden.

The imprint will publish horror and dark fiction novellas, with an emphasis on “New Weird, Weird, folk horror, eco-horror, and eco-science-fiction. It fully embraces the strange and uncanny, and its books aim to leave readers feeling a little changed and disquieted, as if they have just emerged from under a strange spell. Violet ...Read More

Arnaud Lagardère, CEO of Lagardère SA (parent company of Ha­chette Book Group), was required to step down from his position after being charged with ‘‘vote buying, abuse of power and breach of trust, dis­seminating false or misleading information and failure to publish accounts.’’ He is under judicial supervision and was ordered to produce a bond of €200,000. The charges stem from an investigation into the battle for control of the ...Read More

Penguin Random House has announced the removal of two of its most prominent publishers: Reagan Arthur, head of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who ran Pantheon and Schocken, are both out in a surprise restructuring.

Lucas, at least, didn’t see it coming, posting on social media that she learned of the dismissal on Monday morning, and adding, “I have some regrets about spending the weekend working.”

Knopf Doubleday president ...Read More