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Politics, music icons, audio for dogs, the year’s best titles & more. Here’s a mega round-up of all things audiobook! Audible has announced their list of the best audiobooks & narrator of the year: http://www.audible.com/int/Best_of_2012DEC/?source_code=AUDOR94NCEM112912&bp_ua=yes What are audiobook aficionados from across the pond listening to this holiday season? Read Sue Arnold’s suggestions in The Guardian [...]

A roundup of audiobook freebies and links for fans & librarians. The NYT has another wonderful audiobook feature in the Sunday Book Review, “Sound Check “ by John Schwartz:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/sound-check.html?pagewanted=1&ref=books&_r=1& School Library Journal’s “Now You’re Talking! Your Collection Won’t be Complete Without These Must-Have New Audiobooks for Tweens and Teens” has top titles for fans [...]

A roundup of audiobook links of interest… Join AudioGO on September 28th for Librarian’s Day 2012! Are you close to Providence , Rhode Island? Take a road trip to AudioGo’s North Kingston studio for a tour 7 some treats. Author talks and Q&As with bestselling authors James R. Benn (Death’s Door) and Janet Taylor Lisle (The Lost Flower Children). Plus a [...]

What’s happening in the audiobook world? Here’s a round-up of interesting links… I am totally inspired by the Contra Costa County (CA) Public Library’s “Snap & Go” project to bring library services to mobile phones, winner of the 2012 John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award. When I saw this promotion on the library’s website… Now on WestCAT buses: [...]

Get the inside scoop from two pro narrators sharing interviews for #JIAM June is Audiobook Month. Narrator Karen White will be posting her interviews with industry insiders on her Home Cooked Books blog, beginning with this chat with Blackstone Audio’s Tanya Perez. Narrator Robert Fass will be posting a video each day on his YouTube [...]

The year’s best listening named by the American Library Association’s youth divisions in a just-completed conference in Dallas. Yes, the total list of award-winners announced yesterday has plenty of great titles, too. But there are three committees that focus on the unique attributes of audiobook production and narration when selecting the best. ALSC, the Association for [...]

Simon Vance has a holiday treat for you on his blog – a Christmas reading from Dickens. Thanks, Simon! Enjoy  

Six audiobook stars speak in a live chat hosted by the All About Romance blog. If you’ve always want to know the inside scoop on the art of audiobook performance, tune in by clicking this link http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/ to participate in real time at 11am Eastern time on Monday, November 14th. Or – if you can’t [...]

Brick has been sharing the nitty-gritty on the process of creating an audiobook every day of June is Audiobook Month, in his 140-character Twitter posts using the #NARR8 tag. But he’s caught video star fever, and is posting his tweets on his MrScottBrick YouTube Channel, read by some of your favorite narrators, including Booklist Voice [...]

Audiobook memoirs? I asked Booklist Voice of Choice Simon Vance to share some thought about reading biographies when I was writing my Voices in My Head column titled “My Life, My Words, My Voice.”  Here’s what he said about narrating the lives of others: I think the best so far for me was The Autobiography [...]