{"id":741958,"date":"2013-03-15T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=226002"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:09:34","slug":"amazon-publishing-launches-literary-fiction-imprint-little-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741958","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Publishing launches literary fiction imprint, Little A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon Publishing is launching a new imprint, called Little A, that will publish literary fiction — novels and collections of stories — and memoir.<\/p>

Little A joins Amazon’s six other imprints, which focus on genres like romance and science fiction. Until now, literary fiction had been published under the general Amazon Publishing division in New York, and Little A will be part of that division.<\/p>

Upcoming titles from Little A will include James Franco’s novel\u00a0Actors Anonymous<\/em> — which Larry Kirshbaum signed back in 2011, and which will be published this October — among others. A digital-only series called Day One will focus on “short stories from debut writers”; those will be for sale in the Kindle Singles store.<\/p>

As with other titles from Amazon’s New York division, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s New Harvest imprint will distribute print versions of Little A titles.<\/p>

Here’s the full mini-announcement:<\/p>

“Little A is a literary fiction imprint under the Amazon Publishing Group, publishing novels, memoirs and story collections.\u00a0The first titles to be published under Little A are A.L. Kennedy\u2019s\u00a0The Blue Book<\/i>\u00a0(on sale now), an intricate, heartbreaking story of psychics and cruise ships by the dazzling U.K. author; Jake Arnott\u2019s\u00a0The House of Rumour<\/i>\u00a0(on sale 3\/19\/13), which weaves the secret histories of science fiction and espionage into a modern classic; Jenny Davidson\u2019s\u00a0The Magic Circle<\/i>\u00a0(on sale 3\/26\/13), a literary thriller about the culture of gaming; and Shawn Vestal\u2019 s\u00a0Godforsaken Idaho<\/i>\u00a0(on sale 4\/2\/13), stories of the afterlife, the rugged Northwest, and the early days of Mormonism by a ferociously imaginative new writer. Other 2013 Little A titles will include Dan Kennedy\u2019s\u00a0American Spirit<\/i>\u00a0(on sale 5\/28\/13), Allison Lynn\u2019s\u00a0The Exiles<\/i>\u00a0(on sale 7\/2\/13), and James Franco\u2019s\u00a0Actors Anonymous\u00a0<\/i>(on sale 10\/15\/13).<\/p>

Day One is a digital-only series within Little A that is focused on short stories from debut writers and is available in North America and in the U.K. The\u00a0first title, Kodi Scheer\u2019s, haunting, fabulist \u201cWhen a Camel Breaks Your Heart<\/a>\u201d was released on February 5, 2013.\u00a0On March 19, Day One will release\u00a0\u201cMonster<\/a>\u201d by\u00a0McSweeney\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0contributor Bridget\u00a0Clerkin, in which a\u00a0woman struggles to keep her\u00a0dysfunctional\u00a0family\u00a0together amid unsettling events\u2013the family dog goes missing and an unidentified, mysterious animal corpse washes up on the beach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>
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