Announcing Scout Press

I’ve been sitting with a secret for MONTHS and happy, finally, to be able to announce the launch of Scout Press, a new imprint dedicated solely to publishing literary fiction. You can read about Scout in the New York Times here – it’s an excellent piece which includes interviews with Scout’s Publisher Jennifer Bergstrom and the author of Scout’s lead title, Bill Clegg. Bill’s debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family, will be first out of the gate and published on Sept. 15, 2015. The next novel is In a Dark, Dark Wood, a debut literary thriller by British author Ruth Ware. And just this past week Scout acquired Molly Prentiss’ debut novel, Tuesday Nights in 1980, which, especially since I lived in SoHo for so long, I can’t wait to read – it’s about an author on the brink of success and an art critic just as NYC’s downtown arts scene is exploding in the early 1980’s.

It is a happy occasion to have a new publishing program devoted only to excellent fiction and I am over the moon to be working with the people at Scout Press and their authors.