St. Martin's Press Launches Tytora, an Imprint for Puzzles and Games
St. Martin's Press is starting a new imprint, Tytora, devoted to puzzles and games. The first books are scheduled to appear in fall 2027, and the list is planned at 24 to 30 titles a year, according to Publishers Marketplace, the trade news service that reported the launch on 21 October 2026.
An imprint is a publisher's own label inside a larger company. Readers see the name on the spine and the title page, but the books are still produced and sold by the parent house. Tytora will sit inside St. Martin's Press, which is part of Macmillan Publishers.
The imprint will be run by associate publisher Nichole Argyres and editorial director Courtney Littler. The two are also the publishing team behind G.T. Karber's Murdle series, among other puzzle books. Tytora will cover puzzles, games, logic, wordplay, and interactive and game-related fiction and nonfiction. Interactive fiction here means stories that ask the reader to work something out along the way.
Murdle began as an online daily game created by Karber. St. Martin's Press published the first Murdle collection in 2023, presenting 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles. In each one, the reader works through clues to identify who committed the crime. The series has since grown. Its latest entry, Murdle Heist, is published by St. Martin's Griffin, the paperback imprint of St. Martin's Press, with an on-sale date of 6 October 2026.
The series has also travelled abroad. In February 2024, Souvenir Press, a British publisher, acquired three further Murdle titles. Cindy Chan, publishing director at Souvenir Press, acquired the UK rights for those books, according to The Bookseller, the trade magazine for the British book industry.
Tytora will also publish agent-created books, according to Publishers Marketplace. A literary agent represents authors and sells their work to publishers, so an agent-created book is one that starts with an agent's idea rather than an author's manuscript.
For readers, the news is simple. A house that found a loyal audience for puzzle books is building a home for more of them. The first new titles are still more than a year away, so the list itself is yet to be seen.
