Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

Great resources to promote Audiobook Month are yours through Get Caught Listening, sponsored by the Association American Publishers. Get free posters, download promotional celebrity audio clips, and more. My favorite? The Horton Hears a Who poster!

Two great articles from BooklistOnline to celebrate: Sue-Ellen Beauregard’s Fall Audiobook Preview 2009 will help you get your order list ready to submit with tons of terrific new audiobooks for adults, YAs, and children. Joyce Saricks’ At Leisure column this month is Audiobooks: The Acid Test where she shares her audiobook addiction and her preferences [...]

The mic won’t pick up page turn sounds, that’s for sure! Interesting blog post by Open Book Audio. Digital text does save on paper. I wonder if any other audiobook studios have gone this route?

Lion Brand Yard & Audible offer Sweet Talk, by Susan Mallery as free download for romance-filled summertime listening. Looks like a perfect beach listen, too ;- Click here for all the details!

Just arrived via UPS – advanced listening copy of Graceling from Full Cast Audio! You can grab a sneak peek by watching this video or see & hear Tamora Pierce discuss the title here. I love the fact the Full Cast staff videographer Jamil Munoz documents the recording sessions! Are there other audiobook addicts out [...]

Audies award-winning author & narrator Davis Sedaris signs iPods & more for digital readers. Here’s a quote from Andrew Adam Newman’s New York Times article Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It:
Mr. Sedaris wrote in a recent e-mail message that he has actually signed “at least five” Kindles, and “a fair number of [...]

An oldie but goody – just in case you feel in a kinda Facebook/Twitter/stalker mood This is just Part One – be sure to keep clicking through to the creepy conclusion…

Little Dorrit in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook. Great observations on our changing relationship with story in Ann Kirschner’s Reading Dickens Four Ways: How ‘Little Dorrit’ Fares in Multiple Text Formats from the The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Chronicle Review. I particularly like this quote:
Audiobooks also impose a certain discipline. I think of this as [...]

This terrific look inside Full Cast Audio’s production of Eyes like Stars by Lisa Mantchev includes comments from actors, Full Cast founder Bruce Coville, artistic director Daniel Bostick, and more. I love seeing how the cast rehearses, how the script pages are marked, and to see & hear readers morph from actor to character. Lots [...]

Audiobook narrator extraordinaire, recognised as the gold standard, gracious grand dame of voice actors – the accolades could go on and on. Barbara Rosenblat is this year’s Voice of Choice, Booklist Magazine’s recognition of lasting impact in the world of audiobook narration. Read Joyce Sarick’s reflections on  Rosenblat’s artistry to learn more about this master [...]