Paula Deen has new publishing home, reaches distribution deal with Hachette

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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2015 file photo, TV personality Paula Deen attends the EVINE Live launch event in New York. Hachette Book Group announced Monday, March 2, 2015, that it had reached a distribution deal with the celebrity chef’s Paula Deen Ventures. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Paula Deen has found a new publishing home.

Hachette Book Group announced Monday that it had reached a distribution deal with the celebrity chef’s Paula Deen Ventures. Hachette’s plans include selling and distributing a new title, “Paula Deen Cuts the Fat,” and reissuing such older works as “The Lady & Sons” and “A Savannah Country Cookbook.” Todd McGarity, Hachette’s vice-president of client distribution services, said in a statement that Deen’s “trademark warmth and culinary flair are as appealing as ever.”

In 2013, Ballantine Books cancelled a multibook deal with Deen after the deposition in a discrimination lawsuit filed by an ex-employee of Deen’s revealed that she had admitted using racial slurs. Other companies also ended relations with her.

Deen launched Paula Deen Ventures in 2014.

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