Setting Sail

Harper Wave, a health and lifestyle imprint of the Morrow Group, has relaunched after a brief period of dormancy with a new frontlist catalog including titles by Vivian Tu and Valerie Bertinelli. Amid a number of changes at Hachette’s Little, Brown division, Little, Brown Spark has a new editorial director, while top editors at Mulholland and Algonquin have been let go. Aaron Priest has retired from his eponymous literary agency, which he founded and led for more than 50 years, and handed the reins to Mitch Hoffman. Ingram Library Services is continuing to grow its team and capabilities to fill the Baker & Taylor–shaped void in the library distribution landscape, and W.W. Norton is set to take over worldwide publication of Thames & Hudson’s college list. Forbes investigates how some Big Five publishers have been quietly developing internal AI tools. In a major deal, Apple TV has landed rights to all the books in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere literary universe, with plans to adapt his Mistborn series into feature films and his Stormlight Archive novels into a TV show, per the Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, Hannah Rose May’s comic book series The Exorcism at 1600 Penn is heading to the big screen courtesy of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, reports Deadline. For Defector, Eli Cugini traces how fanfiction came to dominate the publishing world. And Substack Prisons, Prose & Protest delves into the history of the nation’s first Black bookstore.