INTRODUCING PARK ROW BOOKS
A New Literary Fiction Imprint from MIRA Books
A New Literary Fiction Imprint from MIRA Books
New York, NY, July 1, 2016—MIRA Books
announced today the official launch of Park Row Books, an exclusive line
of thought-provoking and voice-driven novels by both celebrated and new
authors. Park Row Books will be led by Margaret
Marbury, Vice President, General Fiction Editorial, and Erika Imranyi,
Executive Editor. Park Row Books will publish unique voices and powerful
stories that inspire discussion. Inaugural titles are slated for
release in summer 2017.
“With the success of MIRA’s rapidly expanding
literary fiction program, we decided to establish a dedicated imprint
that focuses on the incredible novels we are publishing,” said Marbury.
“Park Row Books allows us to create new opportunities
for talented literary writers who want a boutique publishing experience
with the support of a powerhouse commercial publisher.”
“We are aggressively growing our imprints that
publish hardcover and trade paper original fiction,” said Loriana
Sacilotto, Executive Vice-President, Global Publishing and Strategy at
Harlequin. “Park Row Books is acquiring powerful and
compelling novels by talented writers who are looking for a house that
will shine a spotlight on their titles.”
The name Park Row Books was inspired by the
landmark street that runs through downtown Manhattan and ends at the
Woolworth Building, the former home of Harlequin’s New York office for
many years. Once known as “Printing House Square” and
the location of many of New York’s major newspapers, Park Row has a
rich heritage of fostering free expression, creative ideas and important
voices.
“MIRA Books has a long history as an industry
leader when it comes to publishing commercial fiction,” said Imranyi.
“The passion and innovation of the MIRA team is second to none and we
have seamlessly parlayed our strengths as a commercial
publisher into our literary fiction program. It is a great privilege to
be spearheading the expansion of MIRA’s powerful list with the launch
of Park Row Books, which will be an exciting destination for talented
literary voices whose books have broad mainstream
appeal.”
The launch title for Park Row Books is the blockbuster debut novel
The Improbable Flight of Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig, which
Park Row acquired in a significant preemptive deal. The highly
anticipated novel follows a recently adopted teenager with autism who is
desperately plotting to get herself kidnapped by her
birth mother. Told in an extraordinarily fresh and wholly unique voice,
The Improbable Flight of Ginny Moon is a compulsively readable and unforgettable story about finding a place to belong in a world that doesn’t always add up.
It will be published around the world in 11 territories and counting.
Park Row Books will also be home to the much-buzzed-about new novels by
New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kubica and Heather
Gudenkauf. Kubica’s book, a psychological thriller about a young widow’s
pursuit of the truth in the wake of the devastating crash that took the
life of her husband, takes readers inside the
dark, twisted corners of a psyche plagued by grief. Her first novel, The Good Girl,
has sold over half a million copies and has been published in two dozen
territories worldwide. Gudenkauf’s next book, a high-concept crime
thriller about a protagonist
with profound hearing loss, features the bestselling author’s most
compelling heroine to date. Gudenkauf’s first novel,
The Weight of Silence, was an instant New York Times bestseller, spending 22 weeks on the list.
Other exciting titles forthcoming from Park Row Books include
When I Think of You, from award-winning journalist and bestselling author Karma Brown, exploring how a woman’s life falls apart over a random act of courtesy;
Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, a breakout literary
novel set in the fascinating and unknown world of a polygamist society
from award-winning Canadian author Christopher Meades;
Undertow, by British journalist Elizabeth Heathcote, the much-buzzed-about debut domestic thriller in the vein of
The Widow; and a new novel from Phaedra Patrick, the author of wildly acclaimed
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, that follows a
down-on-his-luck jeweler whose life is changed when his estranged
teenage niece makes a surprise visit to his quiet village.
Agents with manuscripts that feature strong,
unique voices and groundbreaking content with mainstream appeal may send
material to Erika Imranyi or Park Row Books editor Liz Stein.
About MIRA Books:
MIRA Books is an imprint of Harlequin and
features a lineup of some of the bestselling authors across North
America as well as industry-anticipated debut authors. MIRA Books is
committed to publishing the very best in commercial fiction,
including women’s fiction, suspense and psychological thrillers,
literary bestsellers, and historical. In 2015, 24 MIRA Books titles
placed on bestseller lists (New York Times, USA TODAY
and Publishers Weekly) for a total of 194 weeks. MIRA
publishes approximately 100 books per year in hardcover, mass-market and
trade paperback formats.
About Harlequin:
Harlequin (Harlequin.com)
is one of the world’s leading publishers of books for women, with
titles issued worldwide in as many as 34 languages and sold in up to 102
international markets. The company
publishes more than 110 titles monthly and more than 1,300 authors from
around the world. Harlequin is a division of
HarperCollins Publishers,
the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world, and has
operations in 11 countries. For more information, please visit
Harlequin.com and
Facebook.com/HarlequinBooks. Follow Harlequin on Twitter:
@HarlequinBooks.
