Introducing Six New Consortium Publishers
May 2, 2024
We interrupt our regular Communiqué programming to introduce six new Consortium publishers for distribution: Assembly Press, Bitmap Books, Concord Theatricals, Lanternfish Press, Radius Books, and Sacred Bones Books.
We’re excited to welcome them to our list! Read on to learn more about these terrific presses and their books, and look for them in our Fall/Winter 2024 catalog.
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Assembly Press
Start date: June 1
Assembly Press is a brand-new boutique publisher of first-class literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, founded by three Canadian publishing veterans. The debut list releases this fall and encompasses a variety of books, including collections from established writers, debut works, and more.
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The Lodgers
by Holly Pester
Fiction / Women • September 2024 • 9781738009862
A dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.
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These essays document Phoebe Wang’s experiences learning to sail, while also offering a cultural study of sailing and interrogating what it means to be a relative newcomer to an old tradition.
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Bitmap Books
Start date: June 1
Bitmap Books works with the world’s most experienced writers, designers, and gaming experts to create meticulously researched, visually ambitious video game books that bring classic gaming memories to life. As a design-led publisher, visual quality matters—Bitmap Books not only pursues the best printing quality currently available, they also constantly push the envelope in their production.
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Featuring extensive artist interviews, biographies, and full-color artwork, The Art of the Box is a deep-dive into the art of game packaging illustration.
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From Dragon Quest to Final Fantasy, from Megami Tensei to Pokémon, this illustrated book is a comprehensive history of Japanese role-playing games from 1982 to 2020.
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Concord Theatricals
Start date: June 1
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. They are the only firm providing comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and first-class production.
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Hadestown
by Anaïs Mitchell
Drama / General • 9780573708855
This Broadway-hit folk opera invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
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Ibsen’s celebrated play premiered in 1879, and now, nearly 150 years later, this adaptation by acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog makes the story of Nora Helmer freshly relevant.
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Lanternfish Press
Start date: June 1
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange, including literary and speculative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and the illustrated Clockwork Editions series. Lanternfish aims to make books and publication accessible to readers and writers who fall outside the literary mainstream.
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This fantasy-horror debut finds the clairvoyant protagonist reluctantly returning to her desert hometown, a desolate landscape where monsters and ancient gods stalk the night.
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The Willows
by Algernon Blackwood, ed. Ruthanna Emrys
Fiction / Horror • October 2024 • 9781941360835
Part of the Clockwork Edition series (alongside Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla edited by Carmen Maria Machado), this stand-alone edition of the classic weird fiction novella is complete with annotations and a new introduction by Ruthanna Emrys.
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Radius Books
Start date: effective now
Radius Books is a nonprofit publishing company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a focus on contemporary art and photography titles. Radius projects are distinguished in both form and substance: beautiful objects by important artists across media and rank. Since its founding in 2007, Radius has gifted over 75,000 books to libraries, schools, and arts programs throughout the United States through its publication, education, and donation programs.
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Ruth Duckworth
by Ruth Duckworth
Art / American • December 2024 • 9798890180827
This extensive monograph on Ruth Duckworth’s entire body of work features new scholarship, exquisite reproductions, and the complete cooperation of the Duckworth Estate.
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Howard Smith
by Howard Smith
Art / American • November 2024 • 9798890180995
This major monograph of Howard Smith celebrates his far-reaching practice as an African-American artist, designer, and collector who spent most of his creative life in Finland.
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Sacred Bones Records
Start date: June 1
Sacred Bones Records is an independent record label and publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. They have spent the last 15 years crafting a critically respected label that is synonymous with forward-thinking music, books, and culture, and won the Libera Award for Label of the Year in both 2020 and 2022. Their publishing department has released monographs by some of contemporary art’s most vital and recognizable creators from the subversive underground.
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With this photobook, the star and filmmaker behind HBO’s How To With John Wilson takes a look at the surreal world of online real estate listings.
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These essays—including expanded pieces published in zines from Sacred Bones—explore the intersections between techno-scientific thinking and mythological narratives as they relate to life’s attempt at self-definition.
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