Yourlife Books to Launch

Swedish book publisher Forum has announced it will be starting a new personal imprint with Carina Nunstedt at the helm. The niche imprint will focus on personal non-fiction, from hand-picked life histories to self-help books within popular psychology, life philosophy, inner health, career development, creativity and more.

“This is a way for Forum to broaden its non-fiction catalog in an area where we see a lot of readers,” says Adam Dahlin, publishing head at Forum.

The new imprint will feature work from with Swedish and international authors. The first authors will be announced in the fall, with the first books released in 2017.

Carina Nunstedt is a journalist and has started up several magazines in Sweden, including Mama and Family Living. For the past four years she has been running the Books & Dreams event series and magazine. She is also the founder and head of the Crimetime Gotland crime novel festival. In 2015, she came out with a book on happiness together with Swedish TV host Ernst Kirschsteiger.

“I’m very much looking forward to developing this new publishing arm together with Forum, where I’ve had the benefit of being an author,” says Nunstedt. “Taking the step of being a publisher is something I’ve long wanted. The ambition is to publish books that are timely, that get people to think about and discover themselves. Books that show new sides of both authors and for the readers.”

Nunstedt will start in September as publisher for Yourlife Books and will continue as festival manager for Crimetime Gotland and eidtor-in-chief for Books & Dreams events and magazine.