Boutique literary agency Verve has launched a Publishing division, hiring InkWell Management literary agent Liz Parker to oversee it. She will bring along her roster of upmarket and literary fiction, and sociopolitical, narrative and platform-driven nonfiction clients, and also service Verve’s clients who have books in the marketplace. She also will help source intellectual property for Verve clients to develop. Parker has been at InkWell since June 2015.