Audiobook NEWS:

Audiobook life has been slow for me this year, but I'm still keeping up with industry news and reaching out.

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In August, I received an opportunity to do a coaching workshop with May Wuthrich through Voices to Know.  It was terrific-- I'd love to work with her in the future.  She and Paul Alan Ruben gave us great food for thought.  In a  July, I took a workshop with George the Tech featuring Jesse Bickford who gave me specific advice on my reading of YA fantasy romance-- a new genre to me.  In June, I took an awesome class with Jess Herring of Audiobook Empire, learning ways to reaching out to indie authors.  Now I have to practice reaching out!

 

In the meantime, I'll plug my spring release of a public domain book I produced with Spoken Realms.  It was a doozy (21+hours), but I LOVED recording it.  We (the author and I) share a love of Chicago, which features prominently in the book, and given that I am her age at the end, I felt a connection to the heroine's constant reflection of her life choices and reasoning.  I also had major frustrations with her.  But isn't that what a good book gives you?  Introspection and frustration with the flawed heroes?  I was genuinely surpised at how well the book held my attention, given the year it was written and the fact that I hadn't heard of it prior to discovering the title while researching Early Autumn a few years ago. The story was like comfort food; an easy escape into life before social media & internet distractions.​​​​​​​​