Audiobook Connection - Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

AC-T-67 Repurposing Your Content - Fiction

How do you connect with your current and prospective audience out there? What do you think about when considering repurposing your content? Can you think creatively about how to know your audience well enough to know what they want, and then to help them get what they (and you) want?  Host Becky Parker Geist shares a few of the many tools and practices for you as a Fiction writer to find your audience . . . and how you can make it easier for your audience to find you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-66 Adding a Bonus Author Interview

Considering adding a bonus interview to your audiobook? Host Becky Parker Geist provides the why’s and how’s of creating an interview and how to leverage that to have a greater impact with your listeners, entice them to your website, and provide an enhanced listener experience. Whether you have an existing interview or need to create one, this episode provides valuable tips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-65 Repurposing Your Content - NonFiction

Host Becky Parker Geist shares reasons to repurpose your content, reframing the information and tailoring it to the intended purposes of expanding your coverage in the world and helping the listeners learn your content more deeply and integrate it more fully. Becky inspires you to think about different ways to present your content (information) to reach ever wider audiences, giving several ideas of the multitude of ways to offer your expertise and to use and reuse portions of your audiobook in creative and innovative avenues. Learn tips to create and run a podcast episode, to take advantage of new forms of media to spread your message, and to translate your message into various formats as appropriate. Become aware of the various platforms on which to present your content: YouTube, Social Media, blogs, vlogs, etc. Learn how and where to mention the availability of your other products and the importance of your website in your networking and marketing efforts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-64 The Importance of Pre-Production

If you’re thinking you’ll just send your manuscript to your narrator or audiobook producer and they’ll deliver the audiobook you imagine, then you are probably making a lot of assumptions that could bite you later. Host Becky Parker Geist will lead you through several of the key things to consider when in pre-production, BEFORE recording begins. Set yourself up for success with preparation and the process will go much more smoothly and efficiently. Specific guidance on what to prepare is included in this episode on Pre-Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-63 “Get Agreements in Advance of Production”- Interview with IP Attorney Kelley Way

Expanding on a topic introduced in the previous podcast episode, “DIY Snags - Those Little Things You Might Not Think Of,” Intellectual Property Attorney Kelley Way answers Host Becky Parker Geist’s insightful questions that every author and others involved in an audiobook production need to ask about getting agreements before production in order to keep things clear and to avoid the clash of differing expectations on critical issues later in the production process, and shares what to do to protect your project and everyone affected.   Attorney Kelley Way answers some very important basic questions that all can benefit from asking and getting answered with direct, simple, practical answers that lay people (non-legals) can understand and use in contractual situations. Kelley answers such basic questions as: Why do we need to have a contract and who writes a contract? What do we need to put in a contract? Core elements. When & how each party gets paid.Differing expectations about what’s going to happen next or what each one is getting out of the deal.Do you need an attorney? Useful vs. legally required. Red flags in terms of friendship vs. a business arrangement. Who owns the copyright? Who’s doing the work? Who owns the work? Who decides in a matter of disagreement? On what basis? And more. Kelley clarifies the roles of expectations and interpretations, the fears and benefits of discussing money earlier rather than later, reasonable negotiations, industry standards, clear communication, fair and equitable agreements in working on a project toward the same goals. She defines some legal terms such as “Work for Hire” and its legal meanings, “Rule of Law” in court, Doctrine in Rule in Copyright Law, and points out the complications when things are misinterpreted, depending upon perspective. Kelley also explains why cases get to court, mediation, or arbitration, and how to avoid those scenarios. She shares the hopeful news about the legal system working to make legal language less complicated and more understandable to lay people.   Join Host Becky Parker Geist and Intellectual Property Attorney Kelley Way in this in-depth examination of the best ways to create intellectual agreements to create value and to know what should be included in that conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-62 Snags - Those Little Things You May Not Even Think About

Learn some specifics about the production process that shine a light on potential “snags” to bypass to make your road to your audiobook goal smoother and more rewarding. In this week’s podcast episode, Host Becky Parker Geist offers the listening audience some timely alerts to avoid problems that can happen in the process of producing your book in audiobook format, some tips to inform the author regarding the business of managing your project and the importance of meeting the requirements to get your audiobook produced.  Learn when professionals can rescue a troubled project and mitigate unpleasant and unproductive challenges that could potentially derail your project, which can help you decide whether the time, money, and energy you spend on producing the project on your own is worth saving on the expenses of having knowledgeable and experienced professionals help you create your biggest goals, or how to incorporate their expertise in your project.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-61 Client Value Journey - Interview with Steve Napolitan

Are you considering how your audiobook will help your listeners stay with you and continue to engage with you? You should be! In this episode, host Becky Parker Geist interviews award-winning marketer, international best-selling author (in 4 countries and 14 categories!), Steve Napolitan about how he creates content related to his books and his mission to achieve his biggest goals. Learn key tips on how to produce and leverage and re-purpose content—like the very content in your book! Gain hints on how to work more efficiently so you can enjoy life more. Great info for non-fiction and fiction authors alike! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-60 How (Audiobook) Producers Estimate Pricing

Having all the information you need to make an informed decision about your audiobook makes it so much easier to be certain that you, as the author of a book, are making the correct decision in selecting an audiobook producer for your project.  Host BPG takes the mystery out of audiobook production pricing by sharing specific criteria  that are taken into account in considering the cost of producing an audiobook, sharing the formulae producers use to figure out / estimate how to best cover their own necessary business expenses and give a fair price quote to the author, based on her own experience with her clients.Authors can learn the elements that audiobook producers use to calculate the length, tine involved, and all the various other factors involved in estimating a price quote for the audio book author. Host BPG decodes the labyrinth of esoteric information to help you, the author, have a good experience in bringing your story to life and helping you to create the impact you desire on or with your audience.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-59 Your Audiobook in Libraries - Interview with Michelle Cobb, AudioFile Magazine

Are you interested in having your audiobook in libraries? Listen as Michele Cobb, Publisher of AudioFile Magazine and Audio and Digital Publishing Consultant answers authors’ questions about marketing their audiobooks to the library system. Tips on topics such as increasing your visibility, reviews, contacts with influential associations and vendors, networking and the surprising benefits of the digital world we are now in. Learn how to keep afloat in our changing world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-58 Casting – What to Listen for in Auditions

Finding the right voice is critical to bringing your story to life – it can transport your audiobook listeners to new worlds. Host BPG provides guidance to assist you in selecting the correct narrator for your audiobook as she gives tips and shines a light on the nuances of the audiobook recording processthat may be unfamiliar to an author to help head off or deal with issues that do come up and to avoid the pitfalls in producing your audiobook.BPG illustrates the time-saving and other benefits of working with and learning from experienced professionals and / in a creative team that have developed skills and resources over time, pay attention to important details, and use a personalized approach to your audiobook project. Give a listen now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices