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Major New York Publishers


This list, my friends, represents the Big Bad New York Publishing World. Yes, this is it. Not as awesome as you might imagine, especially considering there are a little more than a dozen major publishers nowadays. Do we believe that this list represents the "end-all, be-all" of publishing? Of course not. Independent Presses and Literary Magazines offer alternative publishing opportunities for published and non-published writers alike. But these Major Publishers, the New York Bad Boys, represent the part of publishing that can’t be ignored—the churning indomitable black hole sucking in commercial matter from every corner of the publishing universe.

The Major Publishers pay the hefty advances, rent space on tables in Barnes and Noble to advertise their prized books, and whisk their rising-star authors around the country on a fifteen city book tour—all in a frenzied, frantic push to sell, sell, sell the most “units” of their newest release. For most wannabe writers, this is the fantasy—our book in major bookchains, an author’s tour, and of course, the six figure advance.

Well, good luck, god bless, and get yourself a damn fine literary agent. It is a tiny, tiny, tiny publishing clique, and a literary agent will help bring you into the popular crowd. We offer this list to educate you. We don’t offer this list as a means for you to research the imprints in order to send off your unsolicited manuscript straight into their slush piles. Please don’t do that. You will regret it. Spend your time writing, revising, and finding a good literary agent who will navigate the New York Publishing Big Boys for you.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

North Point Press
Hill and Wang
Faber and Faber, Inc.
FSG juvenile program for Young Readers


Harcourt Books

Harvest (imprint for adult trade paperback)
Harcourt Children’s Books

Harlequin Enterprises

HQN Books
MIRA Books
LUNA Books
Red Dress Ink
Silhouette
Steeple Hill

HarperCollins

HarperCollins General Books Group
Access
Amistad
Caemdon
Avon
Caedmon
Dark Alley
Ecco
Eos
Fourth Estate
HarperDesign
HarperAudio
HarperBusiness
HarperEntertainment
Harper LargePrint
HarperResource
HarperSanFrancisco
HarperTorch
Perennial
Perennial Currents
PerfectBound
Rayo
ReganBooks
William Morrow

HarperCollins Children’s Books Group
Amistad
Avon
HarperFestival
Greenwillow Books
Joanna Cotler Books
Laura Geringer Books
Katherine Tegen Books
HarperTrophy
Julie Andrews Collection
Rayo

Henry Holt & Company

Metropolitan Books
Times Books
Owl Books
Picador USA
Books for Young Readers

Houghton Mifflin

Mariner Books
Peterson Field Guides
Taylor’s Gardening Guides
Audio

Houghton Mufflin & Walter Lorraine Books for Children
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Walter Lorraine Books
Clarion Books
Graphia Books
Kingfisher

Hyperion Books

Talk/Miramax Books
ESPN Books
ABC Daytime Press
Hyperion East
Hyperion Audiobooks

Kensington

Aphrodisia
Ashes
Bad Boys
Brava
Code Name
Dafina
Eagles
First Mountain Man
Last Gun Fighter
Strapless

Penguin Group
Penguin Adult Division
Ace Books
Alpha Books
Avery
Berkeley Books
Chamberlain Bros.
Dutton
Gotham Books
G.P. Putman’s Sons
HPBooks
Jeremy P. Tarcher
Jove
New American Library (NAL)
Penguin
Perigree
Plume
Portfolio
Riverhead Books
Sentinel
Viking

Penguin Children’s Division
Dial Books for Young Readers
Dutton Children’s Books
Firebird
Frederick Warne
G.P Putman’s Sons
Grosset & Dunlap
Philomel
Price Stern Sloan
Puffin Books
Speak
Viking Children’s Books

Random House

Random House Adult Trade Group

Ballantine Publishing Group
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Reader's Circle
Del Rey
Del Rey/Lucas Books
Fawcett Books
Ivy
One World
Presidio Press
Villard
Wellspring

DoubleDay-Broadway Publishing Group
Broadway Books
Currency
DoubleDay Books
Harlem Moon/Black Ink
Nan A. Talese

Alfred A. Knopf
Everyman's Library
Pantheon Books
Schocken Books
Vintage Books
Anchor Books

Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Crown Publishing Group
Crown
Crown Business
Three Rivers Press
Clarkson Potter
Harmony
Shaye Areheart
Bell Tower

Waterbrook Press
Shaw Books
Waterbrook Press

Random House Children’s Books

Kids@Random
Golden Books
Teens@Random
Teachers@Random
Parents@Random
BookReportNow
Seussville
Magic Tree House
Junie B. Jones

Knopf/Delacorte/Dell/Young Readers Group
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Bantam Books for Young Readers
Crown Books for Young Readers
David Fickling Books
Delacorte Press for Young Readers
Dell Dragonfly Books
Dell Laurel-Leaf Books
Dell Yearling Books
Doubleday for Young Readers
Wendy Lamb Books

Random House Young Readers Group
Akiko
Arthur
Barbie
Beginner Books
The Berenstain Bears
Bob the Builder
Disney Books for Young Readers
Dragon Tales
First Time Books Golden Books
Landmark Books
Little Golden Books
Lucas Books
Mercer Mayer
Nickeloden
Nick, Jr.
Pat the Bunny
Picturebacks
Precious Moments
Richard Scarry
Sesame Street
Step into Reading
Stepping Stones
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends


Rodale


Scholastic


Simon & Schuster

Aladdin Paperbacks
Atheneum
Atria
Downtown Press (Pocket’s “chick lit” line)
Fireside
Free Press
Little Simon
MTV Books
Pocket Books
Scribner
Simon Spotlight
Star Trek
Touchstone
Wall Street Journal Books
Washington Square Press

St. Martins Press

Minotaur
Thomas Dunne Books

Time Warner Book Company

Warner Books
Little, Brown

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Tor
Forge
Orb

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Scientific, Technical, and Medical Division
Professional and Trade Division
Jossey-Bass
Pfeiffer
Wiley Higher Education

W. W. Norton & Company