Big News!

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I have not been straight with you for months now, and to be honest it has felt a bit like I was cheating on you guys. But at long last I can come clean: Belt has been acquired by Arcadia Publishing.

I will remain the publisher, the staff at Belt remains the same, and we will be publishing the same awesome books we always have. But now we have a partner who has so much more firepower than we ever could have, and so many more opportunities.

It is true that I no longer own a small business, and let me tell you, I could not be more relieved.

Here’s the announcement in Shelf Awareness (click and scroll down to read the full story).

There is a scene in the last season of Succession in which Kendall and Roman discuss their sale of Waystar Royco (very similar to Belt!) where Roman says: “We’re selling our business. Is that winning or losing? Hard to say.” Unlike those boys, I have no hesitation: it’s winning. So much winning.

We have also announced a new slew of summer titles, which you can view here. (Booksellers: we will be transitioning our distribution from PGW to Arcadia over the next few months; might take awhile). (Oh also I’ll be at Winter Institute & happy to chat about it all more).

This newsletter will remain unaffected by the change. I’ll tell you more about the (non-proprietary) backstory over the next few weeks. And I’ll be report on our new adventures, too.

It’s a good day!