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Quirk publishing.
David borgenicht quirk books peculiar
Quirk Books
American independent book publisher
Quirk Books is an American independent book publisher based in Philadelphia.
History
Before 2002, Quirk Books was a creative studio that would pitch novel ideas to other publishers.
Quirk Books was founded as a publishing company in 2002 by David Borgenicht, co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. During its first years of operation, Quirk Books mainly targeted the gift book category.[1] Quirk Books would publish one-note joke books, but this genre was eroded with the arrival of humor blogs.
Jason Rekulak, who is credited for being the house's publisher who developed the mash-up novel style that makes the singularity of the company, got the idea of digging into public domain classics and mash them with fiction or horror features.[2]
The release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009) was the publisher's first venture into the novel mashup genre.[1] The