Matt Inman
VP, Editorial Director, Entertainment and Special Projects, The Crown Publishing Group
- Role
- VP, Editorial Director, Entertainment and Special Projects, the Crown Publishing Group at Penguin Random House
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Matt Inman
I\'m an experienced acquisitions and developmental editor who loves fresh voices, memoirs and essays with humor and heart, well-told stories with great characters and immersive experiences, and any book that lets me have fun while learning.Specialties: storytelling, line editing, manuscript editing, copyediting, project management
Experience
VP, Editorial Director, Entertainment and Special Projects, the Crown Publishing Group
Oct 2023 — Present · New York, NY, US
Selected acquisitions include:Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey (acquired with Gillian Blake)-#1 New York Times bestsellerBehind the Seams by Dolly Parton-New York Times bestseller-Grammy nomineeStar of the Show by Dolly Parton-New York Times bestsellerMrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories-New York Times bestsellerMrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live: The Graphic Stories-New York Times BestsellerOutofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold-New York Times bestsellerThe Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty-New York Times bestsellerThe Spamalot Diaries by Eric Idle-The Thurber Prize for American Humor, semifinalistThe Rules of Culture, Volume 1, by Bowen Yang and Matt RogersThe Many of Many Fathers by Roy Wood, Jr.Scriptnotes by John August & Craig Mazin
Education
Penn State University
BA, English, Political Science
2001 — 2005
Skills
- Editorial
- Research
- Project Management
- Publishing
- Copy Editing
- Books
- Text Editing
- Proofreading
- Chicago Style
- Writing
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