Literary agent Lori Perkins is launching a new digital and audiobook publisher, Riverdale Avenue Books, on December 17. The company will have five imprints, including:
Riverdale/Magnus Books — a joint venture with LGBT publisher Magnus Books
pop culture-oriented Riverdale Pop
RAB HSF — for science fiction, fantasy & horror
RAB Truth — specializing in erotic memoir
RAB Desire — which will publish erotic romance titles.

Announcing the launch, Perkins said “We are the first full service digital publisher to launch a pop culture line, with a foreign rights department and a Los Angeles based film agent. We are also working with Audio Realms to produce simultaneous audio books on most of our titles. RAB will give readers the same immediate gratification that they have come to expect from all forms of media and entertainment. Each imprint represents a genre that we believe is consumable, and will keep our readers coming back for more. Simply put, we will give readers the books they crave.”

The company has announced its first two titles:
The Secret Life of EL James: An Unauthorized Biography by New York Times best-selling author Marc Shapiro
Deeply Superficial: Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and Me by Michael Menzies

RAB’s offices, at 5676 Riverdale Avenue in the Bronx, may be familiar to sf pros as the former location of Baen Books.