In its second purchase this year, Jed Lyons’s Globe Pequot Publishing Group has agreed to acquire the nonfiction indie publisher Square One Publishers, which was founded by Rudy Shur in 1999. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two Dollar Radio has been quietly rocking the publishing world since its inception in 2005. The Ohio-based indie publisher and “family outfit” turns twenty this year, and we at Lit Hub want to extend a hearty happy birthday. In a literary landscape that’s often knocked for a fear of risk-taking,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-14 18:01:37 UTC ]
After a stint with McGraw-Hill and Doubleday in the 1960s, Graf became deeply involved in the independent press movement and co-owned the indie publisher Carroll & Graf from 1982 to 1999. He ended his career as an acquiring editor and consultant at Skyhorse Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Purple Mountain Press, which has published local and regional books about the natural and cultural history of upstate New York since 1973, is now under the ownership of four locals seeking to revitalize the indie publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
L.A. indie publisher Unnamed Press has started a poetry line devoted to “collaborative cross-media projects,” and its first releases include books by musician Emma Ruth Rundle and translator Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation,’ which was released as a federal report on January 17, into bookstores by mid February. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Jack Smith Report: Report on Efforts to Interfere With the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by Donald Trump and Others’ into bookstores “shortly after” Trump is inaugurated on Monday, January 20. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Two former leaders from video game publisher Humble Games, Alan Patmore and Mark Nash, have launched a new outfit called Good Games Group. And ironically, the first deal this indie publisher has landed is with its team's old parent company. According to the statement from Good Games Group, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-09 21:15:39 UTC ]
Severn House, an indie publisher established in 1974, continues to expand its wide-ranging library of genre fiction. Whether it's romance, cozy mystery, or fantasy, Severn House is committed to publishing unique stories from established and emerging authors. Joanne Grant, publisher of Severn... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Indie Horror Showcase event is returning on October 24. This is a “celebration of upcoming nightmarish games” made by developers throughout the world and will be hosted by DreadXP, an indie publisher responsible for well-received games like The Mortuary Assistant and Sucker for Love. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-08-12 16:25:42 UTC ]
Humble Games has reportedly laid off all 36 of its staff. Former employees posted about the layoffs on social media. Humble Games is owned by media conglomerate Ziff Davis, which counts IGN, Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz among its gaming portfolio. Humble Games confirmed in a LinkedIn post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-07-23 21:43:10 UTC ]
Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, honored for her theater innovation, is co-editing a bilingual anthology with Oso Perezoso Press, launched by indie publisher J.K. Fowler. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Angel City Press in Los Angeles has long published local authors. In a bold move, its founders are now giving the press to the city’s public library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2024-02-28 15:49:05 UTC ]
The Game Awards got it wrong this year. One of the titles nominated for Best Independent Game, Dave the Diver, was produced by Nexon, one of the largest video game studios in South Korea. No matter how hard you squint, it is not indie. Dave the Diver is an excellent pixel-art game about deep-sea... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-12-01 20:52:11 UTC ]
Canadian indie publisher Greystone and news media organization Postmedia aim to have 'The Summer Canada Burned' on shelves for November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Seattle’s new indie publisher, Hinton Publishing, is a partnership between 'South Seattle Emerald' founder Marcus Harrison Green and Vertvolta Press publisher Vladimir Verano. Its mission is to amplify the voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled, and low-income authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two editors and the publicist for the indie publisher will leave Coffee House by the end of the month as its interim director scrambles to replace them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hug an author today! Fifty-four percent of debut authors responding to Bookseller survey said the process had a negative impact on their mental health—equally likely to feel bummed out whether they pubbed with a Big Four or an indie publisher. One, quoted anonymously in The Bookseller’s report,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-24 15:32:12 UTC ]
Horror movie powerhouse Blumhouse is getting into video games. The company behind hits like M3GAN, Get Out, The Purge and Insidious is opening a production and publishing division that will work on original horror games for PC, consoles and mobile.“We’re in the scary story business. We do films,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-02-21 16:50:41 UTC ]