Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cormorant launches YA imprint Dancing Cat Books

by: Mark Medley

Cormorant Books, the independent Toronto-based publisher, announced Tuesday that it is launching a new young adult imprint called Dancing Cat Books.

“Establishing a children’s and YA imprint was a decision we made easily,” said Marc Côté, publisher of Cormorant, in a press release.

Their website is already up-and-running.

Dancing Cat will publish "author-driven" fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as illustrated books. The imprint will be headed up by veteran children's publisher Gail Winskill, who has worked at Scholastic Canada, Penguin, and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, where she was Children’s Publisher. Winskill will be aided by freelance editor Ann Featherstone and Barry Jowett, who was most recently at Dundurn Press.

"When Barry Jowett joined Cormorant in the Fall of 2009, he brought with him his commitment to quality YA books and then, in December, Gail Winskill and I began to talk. Her enthusiasm, experience and previous successes made the decision to establish Dancing Cat very easy," says Côté.

“I’m absolutely thrilled,” said Gail Winskill in a statement. “The team at Cormorant has embraced Dancing Cat Books andI’m delighted to find a home with a publisher whose reputation for high literary standards matches my own ambitions for this imprint. Some day, Dancing Cat readers may grow up to become Cormorant Book readers, and wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Dancing Cat Books has already announced its Fall 2010 line-up, which include a free-verse novel called Burn, and a picture book by Rebecca Bender called Giraffe and Bird. The imprint intends to publish eight titles next year, including new work by Charles Pachter, and 10 in 2012.

This is the second big announcement Cormorant has made in 2010. In January, the small-press unveiled a new line of poetry books, beginning in 2011.

From: National Post

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