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Publisher and Director of Hachette Audiobooks, Anthony Goff has had his finger on the play button of many titles nominated for recognition at the Audies Award ceremony. But Goff doesn’t keep his enthusiasm for the audiobook publishing field contained at the office. He’s the immediate past President of the Audio Publishers Association, and currently serves [...]

BBC Audiobooks America’s Twitter collaboration with Neil Gaiman generated plenty of audiobook buzz recently – if you haven’t heard about the project, here’s an intro from the BBCA blog (read the rest on the blog) :
Our crowd-sourced saga has concluded! The Twitterverse (with the assistance of New York Times Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman) has created [...]

Winner of the first Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production, Arnie Cardillo of Live Oak Media is a meticulous craftsman of children’s audiobooks and readalongs. I had the pleasure of interviewing Arnie for Booklist after he won the Odyssey for Jazz, written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers – you can [...]

These  fantastic videos show the recording of  YA novel Once Was Lost, with great interviews and on-location footage. The multi-talented Sara Zarr not only writes terrific titles such as her National Book Award finalist The Story of a Girl, she also narrates her own audiobooks, as she did for Sweethearts, The Story of a Girl, [...]

Exclusive video and audio clips and an interview with producer Dan Zitt  – what a great visit inside the recording of Walter Dean Myers’ Riot. Listen to this clip <http://www.box.net/shared/pmv54l2l13> of the audiobook released today by Listening Library, and be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the post where you’ll  really be [...]

As the  Odyssey Honor voice and the 2009 Audies Award winner for Best Solo Female Narration for Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Katherine Kellgren’s talent has been featured here before. But I am so thrilled that Ms. Kellgren has taken time away from the mic to answer my “Inside the Audiobook Studio” questions below.
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What do authors think of their audiobooks? Julie Halpern is certainly an audiobook expert – she’s a past member of YALSA’s Selected Audiobooks committee, with hundreds of hours under the headphones selecting the best in teen audiobooks. She’s also a middle school librarian, adept in suggesting the perfect listen to match her students’ interests. Check [...]

I hope you’re enjoying meeting members of the audiobook community here every Wednesday. The whole idea for “Inside the Audiobook Studio” was triggered by a great event hosted by Brilliance Audio at their studio in Grand Haven, MI. Tim Ditlow, Brilliance VP & Young Adult and Children’s Acquisition Editor, invited a few audiobook aficionados to [...]

10 years + 60 CDs = an amazing achievement!

The Complete Sherlock Holmes – 56 stories and 4 novels – is longer than War and Peace… so the magnitude of David Timson’s achievement in having recorded the whole Holmes canon for Naxos AudioBooks deserved special recognition. And it came in a sizable box set of [...]

The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want more information on LibriVox? Subscribe to the Community Podcast here. Have you [...]