Kjersti Egerdahl
Editorial Director / Amazon Original Stories at Amazon
- Role
- Editorial Director Amazon Original Stories at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kjersti Egerdahl
Creative leader with deep experience in publishing, blending art and science to build new platforms for creators. Titles I\'ve acquired and edited have won the Hugo, Edgar, O. Henry, Audie, FutureBook Book of the Year, and ITW Thriller Awards and have hit #1 on the Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, and Audible bestseller lists. I\'ve launched two products at Amazon: Kindle in Motion and Amazon Original Stories collections.
Experience
Editorial Director Amazon Original Stories
Apr 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Launched a new imprint for digital short stories in ebook and audio. Promoted to director and grew imprint to 50+ titles per year, becoming Amazon Publishing’s top source of new customers.• Managed two direct reports, one dotted-line report, 10+ internal guest editors. Developed new deal structures for external curators.• Acquire and edit 20-25 stories per year from bestselling authors including Margaret Atwood, Andy Weir, Dean Koontz, and Academy Award-winning director and writer Guillermo del Toro.• My titles have hit #1 on the Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, and Audible bestseller lists and are in development for film and TV.• Analyze business-unit growth and goal progress for VP-level audiences; write annual editorial vision papers. Wrote and led a holiday strategy that drove a 4X lift in downloads year over year. • Coached UK and German teams to launch bestselling local content.• Product launch, 2018: Collections, an episodic storytelling experience across ebook and digital audio formats. • Product feature launch, 2021: Continuing collections through multiple seasons.• Product feature launch, 2024: Bonus Picks, supporting the multimillion-member book club Amazon First Reads by adding a short story each month free for Prime members.
Education
University of San Francisco
BA
University of Oxford
Semester abroad through Keble College and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Skills
- Publishing
- Books
- Online Publishing
- Manage Client Relationships
- Copy Editing
- Content Development
- Publications
- Pop Culture
- Newspapers
- Creative Writing
- Digital Publishing
- Editorial
- Non-Fiction
- Content Strategy
- Copywriting
- Public Speaking
- Editing
- Magazines
- Proofreading
- Ebooks
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