YMU Group Launches U.S. Literary Division Beneath Aram Fox (EXCLUSIVE)

Transatlantic expertise administration firm YMU Group has launched a U.S. literary division beneath the management of Aram Fox.

The launch of a U.S. literary company goals to duplicate the ambitions of YMU’s U.Okay. books division, which was launched by Amanda Harris, international managing director for literary, and has grown exponentially during the last two years. The enterprise additionally represents the corporate’s dedication to additional develop and spend money on the U.S. market and replicate its operations within the U.Okay., simply as many U.S. companies are starting to cross the pond themselves.

Reporting into Harris, Fox will probably be signing new purchasers to his division, and will probably be representing the North American pursuits of YMU’s roster.

YMU has workplaces in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, in addition to London and Manchester within the U.Okay. The corporate has purchasers in music, sports activities, publishing, leisure and the humanities, and social, amongst different areas. International purchasers embody Steve Aoki, The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, Pentatonix, Amelia Dimoldenberg, Francis Bourgeois, Graham Norton and Tyler Adams.

Aram joins YMU from Aram Fox Literary Scouting, an company he created at 26, and which has grown to symbolize worldwide publishers and U.S. movie corporations together with HarperCollins U.Okay., Disney Channel, Completely satisfied Madison Productions, and key imprints of Bonnier Media Deutschland and Vivendi/Editis, amongst others.

Because the founder and president, Fox guided the corporate’s purchasers to accumulate such writers as Brit Bennett, Susan Cain, Emma Cline, Harlan Coben, Anthony Doerr, Glennon Doyle, Angela Duckworth, Lena Dunham, Billie Eilish, Gillian Flynn, Hannah Gadsby, Invoice Gates, Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Grohl.

Aram will probably be based mostly in New York.

“The chance to start out one thing, construct one thing and be part of one thing abruptly is a dream state of affairs. And from my first conversations with Amanda and Mary Bekhait, this has been a seamless assembly of the minds,” stated Fox.

“YMU and I are captivated with supporting a various and artistic neighborhood of writers and creators, bold about constructing new pathways between writers and readers, severe about partaking with the complexities of the leisure panorama, and obsessive about bringing a bespoke method to representing our purchasers. I’m so excited to hitch Amanda’s crew, launch YMU’s U.S. literary company and work intently with my new colleagues within the music, leisure, sport, social, arts and enterprise administration teams.”

Mary Bekhait, group CEO for YMU, added: “Aram’s appointment within the U.S. demonstrates additional our continued dedication to constructing a first-class built-in administration enterprise in North America. I’m thrilled we’ve got been in a position to entice somebody of his calibre and can’t wait to see YMU Literary soar additional on account of this appointment. Amanda and Aram are a compelling, dynamic, and impressive management crew who place our purchasers on the coronary heart of all they do — the sky is the restrict.”

Harris added: “[Aram’s] fame for figuring out international bestsellers is famous, as is his granular data of the U.S. and international markets. Aram’s skilled insights coupled with the client-first values of YMU make our representational providing a compelling one, and our workplaces in London and New York will current purchasers with a unified main agent expertise. I’m excited to work with Aram to increase YMU’s bestselling fame past the U.Okay., assist our U.Okay.-based literary purchasers, in addition to our international expertise purchasers, develop their literary careers within the U.S., and uncover new authorial expertise in genres starting from prize-calibre fiction to popular culture and thrillers, from deeply researched historical past and politics to the explainers who make sense of the world we’re dwelling in at this very second.”