08 February 2022
Profile Books has brought its audio production in-house, promoting Louisa Dunnigan to head of audio, and appointing Nathaniel McKenzie to the new position of audio editor and rights executive. The company will also produce titles for new publisher Cheerio, starting with Bacon in Moscow, read by Richard E Grant. Sales and distribution remain with Little, Brown.
Audio publishing at Profile has grown by 82% in the past year. Bestsellers have included Only the Disciplined Are Free by Ryan Holiday and The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. The first title on the 2022 list is Janice Hallett’s The Twyford Code, already selling strongly. Among further titles are We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (signed from Jenny Hewson at Lutyens & Rubinstein), The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack (audio rights acquired from Sarah Wooldridge at IMG), Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents, and Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World.
“It has been a privilege to work with Little, Brown to publish our audiobooks in the past, and I am very proud to now be building Profile Audio’s publishing even further with colleagues across departments and the brilliant Nathaniel McKenzie. Profile and its imprints publish a range of important, compelling and enjoyable books – it is hugely exciting to be able to bring these to life in another format, ensuring that audio is integrated into our publishing strategies and that our books are accessible to an even wider range of readers,” said Louisa Dunnigan.
Profile MD Andrew Franklin said: “We can all see that audio is an increasingly important part of publishing and making authors’ books available to readers in every possible format everywhere, so this is a great development for us. It has started like a rocket.”
Learn more about these significant steps forward here and here.