Audiobook Connection - Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

AC-T-217 Should You Start Your Own Podcast?

Considering becoming a podcast host? Or using a podcast to share your audiobook? What are the basic considerations you’ll want to evaluate before getting started? Host Becky Parker Geist will guide you through the basics of podcasting: why you might want to start a podcast, and what kind of podcast you might like to create. If you already have a podcast but are ready to add a team to manage all the details you’d like to delegate, this will also be helpful to you. Ready to dive into a one to one personal conversation about your podcast and how we can collaborate to customize it to exactly what you need and to match your goals? Schedule a short call at https://proaudiovoices.com/get-started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-216 Interview with true crime author RW Gates

Having now produced three audiobooks with Pro Audio Voices, guest RW Gates shares his experience of audiobooks with a single narrator, two narrators, and a full cast. How do the audiobooks bring to life and enhance the telling of the chilling true crime tales? What special skill came to the fore in decoding what was considered to be the most impossible code to crack? And how do we come to know whether what we’re told is true—or a web of disinformation? Join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-215 Basics for Narrating Your Own Audiobook

Considering narrating your own audiobook? Author-Narrators should be aware before they get started, some of the key issues and top tips to make sure they’re making the best choice by being their own narrators. Once that decision is final, it’s important to know the best practices and tips moving forward into the recording process. Quality is critical when it comes to your audiobook! Let’s make sure your audiobook hits the mark and you end up with the best audiobook possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-214 Putting your Screenplay to Work for You as an Audiobook

Are you a screenwriter with one or more screenplays you wish you could get some traction with? Wondering how you can get the attention of a producer or director or any influencer when the logline isn’t enough? Trying to think of ways to get one step closer and have the marketing tools and assets to reel in an interested audience and producer? Join Becky for this episode to learn how to put your screenplay to work for you by getting it produced as an audiobook. Stop fretting about your print screenplay sitting like clutter on a producer’s stack of manuscripts and start building your audience and your pitch toolkit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-213 Leveraging Audiobook Discount Codes

What types of audiobook discount codes are there? And how can you leverage them to market your audiobook? Host Becky Parker Geist discusses all this and more! Learn about utilizing discount codes with groups, for events, and how to license your audiobook to incentivize event registrations for your own or others’ events. Get inspiration and tips on how to market your audiobook effectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-212 Your Audiobook Marketing Journey Starts with You

Whether you’re at the start of your marketing journey or well on your way, this episode is foundational. What do you need to know to stay inspired along the way? How do you figure out who your audience is? What can you do to reach your audience effectively? This is an episode you’ll want to save and keep coming back to! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-211 How & When to Launch Your Audiobook

Should you have your audiobook done in time for the book launch of your other formats or roll it out later—or even before the text versions? While there’s no single right way to launch your audiobook, how do you decide what will work best for you? It all comes back to marketing! Becky Parker Geist shares her top tips on how to manage your launch strategy as well as how to stay in control of sales and royalties in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-210 Spotify and Audiobook Rights Concerns

Since the acquisition of Findaway Voices by Spotify, some significant changes have taken place—changes you as an author of an audiobook should be aware of. Learn more about the red flags that are going up, the concerns about authors’ intellectual property rights, and more. What’s happening with royalties now that Spotify is offering subscribers 15 free hours of audiobook listening each month? Can that really be good for authors? Or is it just good for Spotify? Is Spotify showing any better policies than the abuses by Amazon? Let’s dig in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-209 Interview with Lindsey Salatka, Author, Editor, Book Coach

Need an eclectic set of languages and accents for your audiobook? Lindsey did for her novel Fish Heads and Duck Skin. Hear about the surprises of casting a challenging audiobook project. Living and working in Shanghai, Lindsey shares the story of how she came up with her book title, and how her experience of “new eyes” played a part in the book’s inception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-208 Audio-Describing - An Interview with Karin Fisher-Golton

Join us for a delightful discussion about children’s book editing and audio description of children’s book illustrations with Karin Fisher-Golton. Learn about some of the things that are particular to children’s books in print and in audio, and some of the opportunities to expand the messages and values of children’s books to young audiences. If you write children’s books, this is for YOU!Learn more about Karin at https://karinfisher-golton.com/ Learn more about children’s audiobooks at https://proaudiovoices.com/childrensaudiobooks/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices