Asmodee Entertainment are delighted to announce that Aconyte, the new fiction imprint of global games company Asmodee, have entered into a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster for the UK book trade. The well-known publishing house will handle sales and distribution when the Aconyte list debuts in Britain in October 2020. Aconyte already have an agreement in place for Simon & Schuster USA to handle sales and distribution to the North American book trade. Aconyte's mission is to create deep tie-in fiction set in the fantasy worlds of Asmodee's games, and those of other selected partners, including Marvel.

Sarah Anderson, Client Publishing Director at Simon & Schuster, said: "We are delighted to welcome Aconyte to the Simon & Schuster family of Distribution Clients, and we look forward to a long and fruitful partnership over the years to come."

Aconyte's publisher, Marc Gascoigne, added: "This is lovely news. We're doing something a little different with fantasy fiction, and the experienced team at Simon & Schuster are a perfect fit. With their impressive track record handling, tie-in books based on world-famous properties, Simon & Schuster are the ideal partners to help launch our novels into the British book trade."