Aconyte Books
Aconyte Books is an English publishing company and imprint of Asmodee Entertainment. It was founded in 2020 with the mission of producing tie-in novels for pop culture media.
History
Founded in 2020 as an imprint of Asmodee Entertainment, Aconytes first employees were Marc Gascoigne, hired to run the company, assistant editor Lottie Llewelyn-Wells, and publishing coordinator Nick Tyler. They began publishing in early summer 2020, producing paperbacks and e-books for the United States, United Kingdom and export markets. As well as a range of fiction based on Asmodee’s properties, they also plan to publish some third-party IPs.[1]
Ubisoft partnered with Aconyte in September 2020, initially to publish books to tie-in with the then-upcoming game Watch Dogs: Legion.[2] In February 2021, Aconyte were announced as the English publisher of Assassin's Creed: The Ming Storm, the first of a new trilogy adapting the spin-off game Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China featuring the Chinese Assassin Shao Jun. The novel was first released in 2019 and written by Yan Leisheng.[3] It was later announced in April, that Aconyte would be publish two completely new trilogies, one related to Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, and another as-of-yet unrevealed.[4]
Assassin's Creed bibliography
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Geirmund's Saga (eBook, 10 November 2020; paperback, 23 March 2021)
- Assassin's Creed: The Ming Storm (2021)
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Sword of the White Horse (2022)
- Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy (2022)
- Assassin's Creed: The Desert Threat (2022) (expected)
- Assassin's Creed: The Golden City (2023) (expected)
- Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot (TBD)
References
- ↑ About Us. Aconyte Books. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.
- ↑ Dastoor, Vaspaan (25 September 2020). Watch Dogs Legion Expands Lore Via Three Books. IGN. Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.
- ↑ License Global (22 February 2021). Aconyte to Publish 'Assassin's Creed' Novels. License Global. Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.
- ↑ Smith, Anjuli (23 April 2021). ACONYTE BOOKS & UBISOFT® COLLABORATE TO CREATE NEW ADVENTURE NOVELS FROM THE WORLDS OF ASSASSIN’S CREED®. Aconyte Books. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.