Raab and Futter Forming Imprint at Macmillan

Jamie Raab (photo: Herman Estevez)

Jamie Raab and Deb Futter, who left Grand Central Publishing at the end of January, are forming Celadon Books, a new imprint, at Macmillan, the New York Times reported. Raab will be president and publisher of Celadon; Futter will be senior v-p and co-publisher. The pair will join Macmillan in September.

Celadon will publish 20-25 books a year, both fiction and nonfiction. Raab said she wants to find "idea-driven narratives and nonfiction books, and works about politics." Futter wants to publish novels that "straddle the line between commercial and literary, and cited Noah Hawley's thriller Before the Fall as an example," the Times wrote.

Raab was president and publisher of Grand Central, part of the Hachette Book Group. She spent 30 years at Grand Central and its predecessor, Warner Books. Futter was v-p and editor-in-chief of hardcovers for Grand Central and publisher of Twelve. She had joined Grand Central in 2007.