Effective July 1, Casemate Group will sell, market and distribute Mortons Media Group in North America.
Founded in the 19th century, Mortons Media Group, Horncastle, England, includes the imprints Gallantry Books, Tempest Books, Banovallum Books, Gresley Books, and Timespan, and produces 25-30 bookazines a year that focus on such topics as railway, military, and aviation history, consumer issues, hobbies, crime, and politics. The company is launching Mortons Books, which will publish books drawing on those publications and has 31 titles planned for 2019/2020. It plans to publish between 50 and 100 books annually.
Mortons publisher Steven O'Hara said, "Mortons Media Group is new to books but has decades of experience in magazine publishing. Our strength is in understanding what our customers want and creating products specifically tailored to suit their requirements. The new Mortons Books nonfiction range will focus primarily on aviation, history, military history, and lifestyle topics."
Casemate v-p, sales, marketing and client relations, Michaela Goff said that Mortons is "a long established and well-respected company and we hope to bring them many new readers here in the United States and Canada."