Lemonada Media and Simon & Schuster Audio Launch New Podcast “Your Next Listen,” A Weekly Destination For The Hottest New Audiobooks

Lemonada Media, the award-winning podcast network that makes life suck less, and Simon & Schuster Audio announced the new podcast “Your Next Listen,” a first-of-its-kind weekly series bringing listeners extended previews of the hottest new audiobooks.

Each week, “Your Next Listen” provides full-chapter excerpts from the buzziest, breakthrough titles — new thrillers, bestselling celebrity memoirs, romance novels, and more. The first episodes spotlightThe Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave, The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop andThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Upcoming episodes feature audiobooks from Hillary Clinton, Meg Cabot and Stanley Tucci, among others. “Your Next Listen” is hosted by Jackie Danziger.

“We are so excited to launch this project as the first collaboration in our overall development work with Simon & Schuster and love this opportunity for Lemonada listeners to get lost in an audiobook and find their next great listen. This is the first of many exciting projects we’ll be partnering on over the coming years, and we can’t wait to bring it into your ears,” shared Lemonada CEO Jessica Cordova Kramer.

“We are thrilled to work with Lemonada to expand the audience for our audiobooks and our authors,” said Chris Lynch, President & Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audio. “We are confident that by introducing these compelling audio excerpts to new listeners in a weekly podcast, we will drive fans to finish what they’ve started.”

Lemonada announced earlier this year the creation of Lemonada Books, a publishing imprint within Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The imprint will launch with two books based on podcasts in the network: Fail Better, hosted by David Duchovny, and Last Day, hosted by Lemonada co-founder and chief creative officer Stephanie Wittels Wachs.

“Your Next Listen” from Lemonada Media and Simon & Schuster Audio is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the trailer HERE. Visit YourNextListen.com for more information on the titles featured.

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ABOUT LEMONADA MEDIA

Founded in 2019 by Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Lemonada Media is an award-winning, independent, audio-first podcast network, with a mission to make life suck less. In 2024, The Hollywood Reporter named both Cordova Kramer and Wittels Wachs among the ‘The Most Powerful People in Podcasting.’ Lemonada has created hit original series’ including Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which spent 29 days straight at #1 overall on the Apple Podcast charts and was named Apple’s 2023 Show of the Year; Blind Plea, which launched to #1 overall on the Apple Podcast charts; Fail Better with David Duchovny, which launched to #1 in Society & Culture on the Apple Podcast charts; The Pink House with Sam Smith which launched to #1 in Arts;Gracie award-winners Last Day, Believe Her and Choice Words with Samantha Bee, as well as Webby award-winners, Add to Cart with Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak and BEING Trans. The company is also the creator of the audio reality™ podcast genre, and launched BEING Studios, where reality TV meets podcasting. In 2023, Lemonada partnered with Apple Books to launch The Lemonada Book Club — a first-of-its-kind, free-to-join digital program that unites fans of nonfiction storytelling across books and podcasts. The network also recently announced Lemonada Books, a new imprint and co-development partnership with Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

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ABOUT SIMON & SCHUSTER

Simon & Schuster Audio is a leading publisher of general interest audiobooks including bestselling fiction, nonfiction, business/finance, self-improvement, inspiration, language learning programs, original audiobook productions, and children’s titles. In addition to a list that includes such unparalleled authors as Colleen Hoover, Jack Carr, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Walter Isaacson, David McCullough, Jason Reynolds, and Fareed Zakaria, Simon & Schuster Audio has published original audiobooks from Bob Woodward, Christina Lauren, William Kent Krueger, Julie Chen Moonves, J.R. Ward, Jeneva Rose. Their audiobooks, among others, have won nine Grammy Awards and earned forty-one Grammy nominations since 1989. For more information about Simon & Schuster Audio, visit our website at  www.simonandschuster.com/audio

Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, is dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and VBK in the Netherlands and Belgium. It proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com

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