With his firm hand on the helm of the vast Bravo experiment—from the inescapable and seemingly infinite Real Housewives franchise to his own late-night talk show Watch What Happens: Live—it’s more than clear that Andy Cohen is one of the most powerful forces in pop culture. Now, his influence is set to grow even further, with the announcement last week that publisher Henry Holt & Co is providing Cohen with the ultimate celebrity vanity project: his own publishing imprint.
Under the newly-formed Andy Cohen Books, the reality mogul and television star will publish his own work and, per Cohen in a statement, “best-selling books written by many of the people I know who are primed to hit it out of the park.” His latest book, Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaires, goes on sale November 15. I’ve no doubt that he knows precisely what he’s doing. Writing, Cohen says, is a “not-so-secret passion,” and his own previous efforts in the publishing biz—specifically the previous installment of what purports to be a personal journal, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year—bears that out.