At Showa Women's University, a project team was formed by students and editors of Hayakawa Publishing Co., Ltd., and a new label specializing in "story for women" was launched in the Hayakawa Mystery Bunko.This is the first attempt in Japan for a university and a publisher to jointly launch a label, and an industry-academia joint project by a liberal arts college student is a very rare case.
The new label plans to publish five overseas mystery works in a row every month, targeting young women such as high school girls.As the first installment, "Ketchup Syndrome" by Annabel Pitcher, a female writer who won the Edgar Award for Young Adults, was published on October 5, 1.Students also created a handwritten POP to put in a bookstore in order to spread the joy of reading.It will be placed at bookstores nationwide.The publishing campaign also plans to collaborate with "Angel Heart," a perfume maker popular with women.
Source:[Showa Women's University] A new label has been launched in collaboration with Hayakawa Publishing!