Auckland Publisher Signs Deal With New York's Blooming Twig
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS Oratia Media Ltd of Auckland, New Zealand and Blooming Twig Books of New York, USA, today signed
a cooperation agreement that will greatly expand their respective reach and publishing capacity.
With immediate effect, Oratia Media will represent titles from Blooming Twig Books in New Zealand, Australia and the
South Pacific. Blooming Twig Books will represent titles from Oratia’s Libro International and Rock Your Life lists in
the USA and Canada.
Both companies are to promote each other’s titles and will manage printing and distribution through print-on-demand and
offset printing arrangements.
Oratia Media managing director Peter Dowling and Blooming Twig Books operating manager Kent Gustavson welcomed the
announcement.
“Blooming Twig Books is an innovative young publisher that has many synergies with our publishing, with us both
committed to children’s books, self-help and general non-fiction,” Dowling said.
“Having guaranteed North American distribution is a major plus for our authors and we look forward to working with Kent
to maximise sales in bookstores as well as through Amazon and other online retailers, and to taking Blooming Twig Books’
titles to market Down Under.”
Gustavson anticipates great interest for the Oratia Media titles in the American market: “I am excited to have the
chance to work with the diverse front and backlist that Oratia Media has to offer, and we are looking forward to
reaching a new market in New Zealand and Australia.”
First releases in the Australasian market for Blooming Twig will be Dr John Molidor’s brilliant take on
inter-generational mix-ups, Psycho Generations: How Each Generation Drives the Other Crazy and What You Can Do About It; and Jennifer Powers’ Oh Shift!, a hilarious guide to handling change in a rapidly changing world.
Blooming Twig will start with Libro International’s outrageous TV tie-in Outrageous Fortune: The West Family Guide and Tim Tipene’s junior novel Kura Toa, to be followed by the first two titles from the Rock Your Life series, Damian Milo’s Recession-Proof Your Life and Mike Handcock’s What if you were God?
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