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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 …
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Author of the Shadows of Tenebris Court series Clare Sager's KING OF RAVENS, the first in a duology, pitched as for fans of the film Labyrinth and the myth of Hades and Persephone, in which a chronically ill woman is bound to an unseelie King of Death after her father breaks a bargain with the fae—only to discover the line between family and foe isn't so clear, and her husband may not be the real monster, when she makes her own twisted deal for freedom, to Sam Brody … read more
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