'There's tons of women of color who are interested in comedy and write these incredibly funny books,” Mindy Kaling tells host CelesteHeadlee, “and I just want to help people get to see them.”
She acts, writes, does comedy, directs and produces TV and film, and she's written two bestselling memoirs. So it comes as no surprise that the Hollywood powerhouse has now moved into publishing.will publish books that Kaling selects, and she'll also have the first option to develop those books into feature films.“Throughout my career, I've been labeled as sort of unusual and an outlier for someone from my background.
Mindy’s Book Studio will look for books from emerging and established diverse voices, which she says means breaking the traditional mold of the “impenetrable” industry. Kaling says she and her imprint will be fully accessible through social media, so it doesn’t matter if a writer lacks an agent or isn’t fully aware of how to craft a book proposal.
So if you’re a writer looking to grab Kaling’s attention, she notes whether it be romance or revenge, she enjoys a range of genres with “a juicy incident.”On what kind of books she’s looking for “... As a child who grew up very nerdy, books were my only friends. And so when I was growing up, I read everything. And obviously, romantic comedy is something that I've worked a lot [on] in TV and coming of age stories, but I was not a snob. I wasn't picky at all. Like I would read ‘Sphere’ by Michael Crichton, and I would absolutely love a thriller like that.
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