Poisoned Pen Press Will Become Sourcebooks’ Mystery Imprint

12/19/2018

We are excited to share that the award-winning crime and mystery publisher Poisoned Pen Press will become Sourcebooks' mystery imprint.

Click "Read More" below to hear from Dominique Raccah, CEO and publisher at Sourcebooks, senior editor Anna Michels, and more about Poisoned Pen Press.

Click here to read more about the acquisition on Publishers Weekly.

From the publisher

Dominique Raccah, CEO and Publisher, Sourcebooks

We are thrilled to welcome Poisoned Pen Press’s extraordinary and diverse range of authors to the Sourcebooks family. “I love the way that Barbara and Robert think about mystery, and I look forward to doing what Sourcebooks does best— build big success for Poisoned Pen Press authors with broader sales distribution and innovative marketing. We love to support fellow entrepreneurs, and I can’t wait to work with Barbara, Robert, and our new Sourcebooks staff to expand their amazing impact in the world of mysteries, suspense, thriller, and horror.

From the editorial team

Anna Michels, senior editor, Sourcebooks

We couldn’t be more excited to bring Poisoned Pen Press’s illustrious name and roster of authors to Sourcebooks. Over the past twenty-plus years, Robert and Barbara have curated a list that is unparalleled in terms of editorial excellence and appeal to the mystery reader, and our shared goal is to continue that tradition of publishing superb content while implementing a commercially oriented vision of wider distribution and increased marketing support. Sourcebooks and Poisoned Pen Press coming together really feels like a joining of powerful forces, and I can’t wait to work with Robert and Barbara to create amazing things for all the authors housed under this new imprint.

About Poisoned Pen Press

Robert Rosenwald founded Poisoned Pen Press two decades ago, inspired by new print-on-demand technology to bring books back into print, but it swiftly evolved into publishing new crime fiction. He named it Poisoned Pen Press in tribute to wife Barbara's legendary mystery bookstore of the same name. The press quickly evolved into an award-winning independent mystery press, publishing about sixty original books annually. Poisoned Pen Press books have won or been nominated for every major award in the mystery genre. Peters and Rosenwald have been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bouchercon crime and mystery conference (2008), the Poirot Award bestowed by the Malice Domestic board of directors to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the genre, and the Ellery Queen Award at the 2010 Mystery Writers of America’s annual dinner honoring writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry.

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1 Comment

Dan Coleman

12/23/2018 06:51:06 pm

I don't know. Is the readership growing over time, though? I've tried reading several of these P.P. authors a few years back and never got past a few pages because of the slow, boring, pedestrian pace and subject matter. God writers, but nit good story tellers.Maybe I expect a higher quality than many of their current readers, but the authors here are bland, seem to be writing for one another and not a larger audience outside their own circle, kind of like dramatists. I wish this venture all the bast of luck; anything to keep alive the written word in a world of cyberspeak, but I'd also like to see it spread its wings a little ore. Is that asking too much?