After a successful 15-year career in publishing, Carol M. Mackey made the transition to audiobooks in October 2017. As Senior Acquisitions Editor at Recorded Books, she is responsible for licensing high quality fiction and non-fiction titles for audio.
Carol enjoys bringing in books by bestselling and established authors, but her greatest joy is discovering new and upcoming authors and helping them build their brands in the audio space. As the former Editorial Director for Black Expressions, the largest direct to consumer book club for African Americans, she remains on the lookout for diverse African American and multicultural voices.
Carol is the author of Sistergirl Devotions: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job and Faces of Praise: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift. She lives on Long Island in New York with her Siberian Husky named Blue.