Macmillan will acquire Sounds True’s backlist and frontlist titles, driving an expansion in mind/body/spirit publishing. Print and ebooks will be published under the St. Martin’s Essentials imprint and audiobooks and original audio will be published by Macmillan Audio. Sounds True authors include Jon Kabat-Zinn, Pema Chödrön, Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Caroline Myss, David Deida, Tara Brach, Wim Hof, Terri Cole, and Jack Kornfield. “Sounds True has been a longtime Macmillan distribution client. In that time, we’ve seen firsthand the passion and commitment with which Tami Simon and Sounds True have built a remarkable program. This acquisition represents our deepening investment […]
Archives for October 2025
Mango Publishing Closes
Miami-based Mango Publishing is going out of business, founder Christopher McKenney announced in a letter to authors yesterday. The company took out high-interest loans during the pandemic, he writes, and since then have had to “navigate supply chain disruptions, high print price inflation, book market downsizing, losses from uncollectible accounts receivable, and more recently, even tariffs, while servicing the bank and other debts.” A team of consultants is managing the shut down, and the bank is liquidating all Mango assets “for their benefit.” The company has “exhausted all cash” and will not be able to pay down any debts or […]
The Edit: The Best Forthcoming Small Press Titles
Welcome back to our monthly column about buzzy galleys. Best Of season has begun, with Publishers Weekly announcing their favorites, and the National Book Awards will take place in two weeks. To give you a break from the most-publicized books of the year, we asked publishing staffers to recommend some small press titles coming out in the next few months. Allison Tamarkin Paller, web editor at Seven Stories Press (publisher of NBA Translation Prize finalist Sad Tiger) is looking forward to City of Rats by Copi, translated by Kit Schluter (New Directions, 3/31). She writes, “Copi’s last release, The Queen’s […]
Forthcoming: ‘Whistler’ by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett announced that her novel WHISTLER will be published by Harper on June 2. “WHISTLER is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them,” writes Harper in a release. “When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine…Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, […]