Matt Holt Books

Led by Matt Holt, the Matt Holt Books imprint is a business and non-fiction arm of BenBella Books. Founded in 2020, the imprint has enjoyed early success with over a dozen bestselling titles. Matt Holt Books prides itself on offering an extraordinary degree of publisher-author partnership and author satisfaction. By maintaining a deep commitment to aggressive, creative, customized marketing, and offering extremely lucrative high-upside deals for our top authors we utilize the world-class distribution of Penguin Random House to help our authors achieve global success. About Matt Holt: Holt was previously Senior Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons, where he oversaw a team of 85 staff. Over Holt’s 30-year career, he’s acquired over titles and published titles including: Jon Gordon’s Energy Bus, Larry Winget’s Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life, Patrick Lencioni’s The Ideal Team Player, Jeffrey Gitomer’s The Sales Bible, Ben Stein’s What Would Ben Stein Do, Joe Calloway’s Becoming a Category of One, and David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing and PR.