Sourcebooks and Hearst have launched Cosmo Reads, a new imprint in collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine. In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction” and aim to publish four to six titles per year.
“This is a dream partnership,” said Sourcebooks CEO and publisher Dominique Raccah, in a statement. “Cosmopolitan uniquely reaches an insatiable audience that loves books, creating trends and big conversations. We are going to marry that with our audience-centric approach to publishing books that will excite and ignite those readers.”
Jacqueline Deval, VP of Hearst Books and Hearst Specials, added that the collaboration will deliver “irresistible stories that resonate with the enthusiastic readers in our audiences worldwide.”
The new Cosmo Reads imprint, which plans to release its first titles in 2025, will operate within Sourcebooks and be overseen by Sourcebooks editor Kate Roddy. Executive editor Deb Werksman will acquire titles for the imprint in partnership with Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Willa Bennett, editor Tamara Fuentes, and other members of the Cosmopolitan editorial staff. Promotion strategy for Cosmo Reads will be shared by Sourcebooks and Cosmopolitan, which, according to a release, will “leverage Sourcebooks’s audience of avid readers and Cosmopolitan’s print and digital reach, which includes a global presence with 21 editions worldwide.”
The partnership brings together one of the largest publishers of adult fiction and romance in the U.S. in Sourcebooks—home to such bestselling authors as Ana Huang, Freida McFadden, and Scarlett St. Clair—with the largest young women’s media brand in the world in Cosmopolitan. Hearst reps say that “more than 50 million American women engage with the Cosmopolitan brand” across all platforms, including a “vast millennial and Gen Z audience.”
Hearst Books, which includes the Hearst Home and Hearst Home Kids imprints, publishes nonfiction lifestyle titles for both adults and children. They are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services.
