Readerlink Distribution Services' Printers Row Publishing Group is the new exclusive North American publisher of Canelo titles. The Canelo U.S. imprint will include thrillers, genre fiction, romance and historical fiction. Eight titles will appear in Summer 2022 and nine titles in Fall 2022. Canelo was founded in 2015 as an e-book and paperback publisher.
Canelo managing director Iain Millar said, "Print has been a huge growth story for us over the last three years. Although we started as a digital publisher, print is now core to everything we do. We've been thinking about the best way of getting our titles into the U.S. market for some time and are absolutely delighted to partner with Readerlink and Printers Row Publishing Group to make Canelo U.S. a new and exciting reality."
Printers Row v-p and publisher Peter Norton said, "We've been interested in entering the genre fiction business for a while as a way to complement our robust Canterbury Classics line. Partnering with Canelo, one of the fastest growing U.K. fiction publishers is a perfect fit. It provides Canelo U.S. entry to a huge range of quality authors, a huge range of quality authors and a myriad of genres for the North American market. This partnership also affords us speed to market."