# Spiegel & Grau

> Spiegel & Grau is a New York independent, multi-platform publisher founded by veteran editors Celina 'Cindy' Spiegel and Julie Grau. After Penguin Random House shuttered their acclaimed imprint in 2019, the pair relaunched as an indie house in 2021, deliberately capping their list at 15-20 books a year so each title gets full editorial care across print, audio, podcast, and screen. The house treats a story as an asset to be developed across formats rather than a single book to be printed, and its very first independent release, Catherine Raven's 'Fox and I,' hit the New York Times bestseller list out of the gate.

- **Founded:** 2005
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Celina "Cindy" Spiegel (Co-Founder & Publisher), Julie Grau (Co-Founder & Publisher)
- **Team size:** 23
- **Products:** Print Books, Audiobooks & Audio Exclusives, Podcasts, Media Rights & Adaptation, Author Development & Strategy
- **Notable:** Published Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Between the World and Me' (2015), a #1 NYT bestseller and National Book Award winner named one of Time's ten best nonfiction books of the decade., First independent release, Catherine Raven's 'Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship' (2021), became an instant New York Times bestseller., Relaunched a shuttered corporate imprint as a fully independent house - a rare comeback in modern publishing.

## Products & services

- **Print Books** — Upmarket and literary fiction, reported nonfiction, memoir, and prescriptive nonfiction, held to roughly 15-20 titles a year for concentrated editorial care.
- **Audiobooks & Audio Exclusives** — Original and exclusive audio productions including titles like 'Shy,' 'What Storm, What Thunder,' and 'The Last Shot.'
- **Podcasts** — Original podcast development, extending stories and authors into serialized audio formats.
- **Media Rights & Adaptation** — Development of stories across formats including film and television, managing the full content lifecycle from a single narrative asset.
- **Author Development & Strategy** — Bespoke, integrated publishing plans that coordinate print, audio, and media opportunities for each writer from acquisition onward.

## Achievements

- Published Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Between the World and Me' (2015), a #1 NYT bestseller and National Book Award winner named one of Time's ten best nonfiction books of the decade.
- First independent release, Catherine Raven's 'Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship' (2021), became an instant New York Times bestseller.
- Relaunched a shuttered corporate imprint as a fully independent house - a rare comeback in modern publishing.
- Original imprint acquired and published works by Jay-Z, Bryan Stevenson, Trevor Noah, and other landmark authors.
- Founders' track record dates to co-founding Riverhead Books in 1994, where they published Junot Diaz, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, and Chang-rae Lee.

## Latest updates

- **2023-03** — Published Shelley Read's debut novel 'Go as a River,' a widely translated bestseller.
- **2023-10** — Released Margaret Renkl's 'The Comfort of Crows.'
- **2024-01** — Reissued Melody Beattie's revised edition of the recovery classic 'Codependent No More.'
- **2026-01** — Announced Kathryn Stockett's long-awaited second novel on the list.

## Links

- Website: https://spiegelandgrau.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/spiegelandgrau
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/spiegelandgrau
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiegelandgrau/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spiegelandgrau/

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