Phenomenal Media Books will develop and purchase works from underrepresented voices throughout a number of genres.
Phenomenal Media, the media and merchandising firm based by Meena Harris, introduced Tuesday a publishing partnership with Hachette Ebook Group divisions, launching Phenomenal Media Books.
Phenomenal Media Books will develop and purchase works from underrepresented voices throughout a number of genres and for audiences of all ages. Books will likely be revealed in collaboration with imprints Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers.
Founder and CEO Meena Harris, who's the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, mentioned in an announcement, “We're excited to have the ability to broaden on our mission to assist underrepresented voices and singular storytelling by this unprecedented publishing partnership with Hachette. We had been thrilled to see the optimistic response to our launch of Phenomenal Ebook Membership — clearly, individuals are on the lookout for extra tales from authors who, too usually, don't obtain the highlight from the publishing business. Phenomenal Media Books will present new avenues for locating these authors and positioning their works for achievement.”
The publishing partnership follows Phenomenal Media’s launch of a e book membership devoted to highlighting underrepresented authors and included Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Undertaking and its youngsters’ companion Born On The Water as its first picks. With the publishing partnership, Phenomenal will proceed to broaden on Phenomenal’s mission of championing girls and traditionally excluded communities within the publishing world.
Final November, the corporate made a transfer into the leisure house, hiring former Common government Juliet Liu as head of content material and leisure, and Regina Lee as head of improvement for movie & TV.
Acquisitions and editorial selections for Phenomenal Media Books will likely be made by a crew of Phenomenal workers, together with Harris and Liu. LBYR vp and editorial director Farrin Jacobs will oversee younger grownup/kids’s tasks and GCP vp and digital paperback writer Beth de Guzman grownup tasks.
CAA brokered the cope with Hachette Ebook Group on behalf of Phenomenal Media.
“As the house of Meena Harris’s kids’s books for a number of years, now we have seen up shut her enterprise and advertising acumen, in addition to her dedication to creating books that each one varieties of kids can see themselves in,” Megan Tingley, president and writer of Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re excited by the prospect of rising that relationship and collectively championing extra tales from underrepresented voices.”
GCP’s de Guzman added of the partnership, “We're passionate supporters of Phenomenal Media’s mission at GCP and are thrilled to collaborate with their crew throughout our imprints right here, together with Grand Central and Legacy Lit, to publish and market inventive, unique and necessary books for grownup audiences by underrepresented authors.”
Harris’s fourth kids’s e book, A Is For Formidable, a sequel to her New York Occasions best-seller Formidable Lady, will launch on March 14.