Scholastic New Zealand Appointed Distributor for Hot Key Books, UK

Hot Key Books is delighted to announce that effective 1 August 2013, Scholastic New Zealand have been appointed exclusive distributor of the Hot Key list.

Hot Key Books is an exciting new UK teen and YA fiction publishing house owned by the global Bonnier Group and includes celebrated and award-winning authors such as Sally Gardner, Vikki Wakefield and Gareth P. Jones.

Scholastic Territory Managers will be presenting the Hot Key list to their trade customers late September for supply in February 2014. The existing Scholastic returns policy will apply to Hot Key titles.

All enquiries to trade@scholastic.co.nz

About Hot Key Books

Hot Key Books, part of Bonnier Publishing, is a top quality, strongly commercial and diverse fiction list for children and young people aged 9-19 years old, publishing both traditionally and digitally. Publishing since August 2012, our books have already been widely critically reviewed and our third book, MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner, won the 2012 Costa Children’s Book Award and 2013 Carnegie Medal.

The company name derives from the power of stories to open doors and feed the imagination of readers. Hot Key Books seeks to unlock the power of reading, a love of books and a joy of stories for readers of all ages. It also reflects the digital age in which we now live through its association with 'hot key' commands – the short cut command on a keyboard.

About Bonnier Publishing

Bonnier Publishing is one of the fastest growing publishers based in the UK, with offices in Australia and France and 250 employees worldwide. It is owned by Bonnier Books, which is a top 20 world publisher with a turnover of £600m. Bonnier Publishing is primarily the English language arm of Bonnier Books and it owns children’s publishers Hot Key Books, Templar Publishing, Autumn Publishing, The Five Mile Press, Weldon Owen Publishing UK, Piccolia in France and the newly launched Red Lemon Press.

Bonnier Publishing was named a Top 5 Climber in The Bookseller’s Independent Children’s Publisher list in 2011 and Bonnier Publishing CEO, Richard Johnson, was named one of the top 100 influential people in publishing by The Bookseller in 2012. This year Bonnier Publishing scooped the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals with MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner (Hot Key Books) and BLACK DOG by Levi Pinfold (Templar Publishing).