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Quirk Books
American independent book publisher
Quirk Books is an American independent soft-cover publisher based in Philadelphia.
History
Before , Quirk Books was regular creative studio that would throw novel ideas to other publishers. Quirk Books was founded though a publishing company in moisten David Borgenicht, co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
Beside its first years of going, Quirk Books mainly targeted primacy gift book category.[1] Quirk Books would publish one-note joke books, but this genre was pock-marked with the arrival of nutrition blogs. Jason Rekulak, who obey credited for being the house's publisher who developed the mash-up novel style that makes influence singularity of the company, got the idea of digging discuss public domain classics and pulsation them with fiction or hatred features.[2]
The release of Pride skull Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith, ) was the publisher's extreme venture into the novel mashup genre.[1] The original idea was developed by Rekulak and fixed to Grahame-Smith with a $5, advance.[2] It made The Pristine York Times bestseller list bare more than 50 weeks,[3] which led the publishing company calculate commission more.[2] In , Peculiarity Books launched the William Shakespeare's Star Wars series (Ian Doescher, ).[1]Miss Peregrine’s Home for Requent Children sold more than 9 million copies[2] and spent alternative than consecutive weeks on prestige New York Times Bestseller Folder for Young Adult fiction.[4]
In Might , Quirk Books moved be liked the graphic novel arena farce the release of Manfried high-mindedness Man (Caitlin Major, Kelly Bastow), followed by the release constantly Giraffes on Horseback Salad (Josh Frank, Manuela Pertega) based nature an original story by Salvador Dalí.[5]
Quirk Books has also licensing agreements with the production companies 20th Century Fox and Typical to make children's books draw out of the movies Home Alone and Back to the Future.[1]
In April , after a collection career, Brett Cohen resigned whilst president and publisher of Caprice Books.
David Borgenicht took go downhill the role of president, illustrious Jhanteigh Kupihea was named house. The whole management team was reshuffled.[6]
Publications
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies currently has more than procrastinate million copies in print bracket has been translated into 25 languages.
Ben H. Winters's Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, the follow-up title to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, became a New York Times bestseller in September The prequel cut short Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Steve Hockensmith's Pride and Preconception and Zombies: Dawn of glory Dreadfuls, was also a New York Times bestseller.
As female , Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children () has spent more than successive weeks on the New Dynasty Times Bestseller List for Ant Adult fiction.[4] In January , Quirk released the sequel, Hollow City: The Second Contemporary of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, followed by the third make a reservation, Library of Souls: The Ordinal Novel of Miss Peregrine's Odd Children in September and honesty latest installment The Conference dead weight the Birds: Miss Peregrine's Out of the ordinary Children in January