Audiobook Connection - Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

What kind of impact do you want to have? As authors, we often think about sales and discoverability and reaching our audience. Host Becky Parker Geist walks with us down the path of considering all this from the angle of impact, helping us focus on specifics that can enable us to achieve our goals, share our message, and increase our influence and sharing with others.  We all want to be seen and h...

Do you have dingbats or icons or other repetitive visual indicators in your print book? Wondering what to do about those for the audio? Host Becky Parker Geist will help clarify why you might consider not just ignoring or omitting them and some creative ways to help your listener with things like “aural dingbats.” Find out when the best approach is to just leave a differentiation silence and when...

Are you wondering or have questions about whether or not to podcast your finished Audiobook? What are the reasons for doing so? What are the consequences of taking such an action? How do you turn your Audiobook into a podcast and enrich your listener’s experience, and what kind of podcast would be best for your purposes?  Host Becky Parker Geist gently leads us into the world of podcasting your Au...

You might think that the best way to review your audiobook files is with your text in hand and your analytic scrutinizer turned up full volume. Host Becky Parker Geist shares a different approach—one that will better help you provide the best listening experience for your audience. Find out why and how to review your audiobook effectively, do it with less stress, and deliver the best product for y...

“Success leaves clues” Tony Robbins tells us. Figure out what a successful person does and model it, even improve on it, but learn their steps, specifically regarding your marketing.    Host Becky Parker Geist helps fill the gaps in our understanding of effective marketing with ideas, techniques and strategies that we may not have imagined are effective. She gives us encouragement to find out what...

Do you have a story to tell? Is your own story pushing its way to get out into the world?  Be prepared to tell it successfully when you hear what Host Becky Parker Geist, a successful author, audiobook producer, publisher, and entrepreneur has to share about overcoming the challenges to getting your memoir into a storytelling format to reach the hearts of others who might benefit from hearing abou...

Listen in as Host Becky Parker Geist discusses with innovative Children’s Book author Brad Pohl the exciting new way he is bringing his content out to the world, creating  an experience for children to have more control, thus teaching them self-discipline, accelerating the learning process, and teaching children ways to take care of the earth’s environment. Brad alerts us all to conservation probl...

Host Becky Parker Geist discusses with Memoir author Laura Davis the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration between an author who narrates her own audiobook and (with) a professional narrator’s consistency in playing some of the characters. As an author narrating – making the best choices and discovering what really matters. How sharing a memoir - a very intimate, personal account - with ot...

Sounds and sound effects can appeal to us on a vicarious rather than a conscious level, connecting the listener with the author’s intended message in a deeper way in our understanding and emotions than words. This brings immediate clarity to the message and can join everyone in enjoying the author’s tale. Host Becky Parker Geist invites us to join her in diving into the idea of sounds replacing sy...

In this interview with Melyssa Barrett, Host of the JALI Podcast, you’ll discover the fascinating journey of one woman who turned her husband’s profession of telling the stories that need to be told, along with her passion for connecting and engaging with people, into an inquiry to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion through her successful podcast series. Host Becky Parker Geist asks questions...

Host Becky Parker Geist dives into the things you need to know about pronunciations, from names and that are real or fictional to regional pronunciations. Should foreign words be pronounced as someone from that country or as someone from the narrative voice? Where should you look for valid pronunciations? And when does the author need to provide them? So much about such a simple thing—or is it as...

What to do when you miss a deadline or make a mistake or something unexpected throws you off? Host Becky Parker Geist offers some gentle techniques and tips to help us all move on in a positive way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview with Director of Pre-Production at Pro Audio Voices Inc., Jerrilee Geist, you’ll learn more about the conversion from Screenplay or Theatre Script into the Audiobook format. Find out how to approach film shots and stage directions, just how narrative to make your script, how the difference in the visually-oriented scripts best translate into a great auditory experience. Tips on d...

Are you tired of living and working in a dog-eat-dog business world? Is the frustration adding to your stress level and robbing you of the pleasure of doing what you love to do while serving others?  There are a number of ways you can change that situation without moving to and setting up shop in the Bahamas, Jamaica, or the Pacific Islands.  (Although these spots are tempting to visit.) Host Beck...

Calling all those wanting to express their characters audibly!  Do you want to know how to best bring your story alive with your characters’ voices?  Voice characterization is very subjective. Learn about this kind of character  representation and interpretation, differentiation of characters voices,  when it matters, when it doesn’t, and more!   Join Host Becky Parker Geist on a fun and productiv...

How do you connect with your current and prospective audience out there?  What do you think about when considering repurposing your content?  Can you think creatively about how to know your audience well enough to know  what they want, and then to help them get what they (and you) want?    Host Becky Parker Geist shares a few of the many tools and practices for you as a Fiction writer to find your...

Considering adding a bonus interview to your audiobook? Host Becky Parker Geist provides the why’s and how’s of creating an interview and how to leverage that to have a greater impact with your listeners, entice them to your website, and provide an enhanced listener experience. Whether you have an existing interview or need to create one, this episode provides valuable tips. Learn more about your...

Host Becky Parker Geist shares reasons to repurpose your content, reframing the information and tailoring it to the intended purposes of expanding your coverage in the world and helping the listeners learn your content more deeply and integrate it more fully. Becky inspires you to think about different ways to present your content (information) to reach ever wider audiences, giving several ideas o...

If you’re thinking you’ll just send your manuscript to your narrator or audiobook producer and they’ll deliver the audiobook you imagine, then you are probably making a lot of assumptions that could bite you later. Host Becky Parker Geist will lead you through several of the key things to consider when in pre-production, BEFORE recording begins. Set yourself up for success with preparation and the...

Expanding on a topic introduced in the previous podcast episode, “DIY Snags - Those Little Things You Might Not Think Of,” Intellectual Property Attorney Kelley Way answers Host Becky Parker Geist’s insightful questions that every author and others involved in an audiobook production need to ask about getting agreements before production in order to keep things clear and to avoid the clash of diff...

Learn some specifics about the production process that shine a light on potential “snags” to bypass to make your road to your audiobook goal smoother and more rewarding. In this week’s podcast episode, Host Becky Parker Geist offers the listening audience some timely alerts to avoid problems that can happen in the process of producing your book in audiobook format, some tips to inform the author r...

Are you considering how your audiobook will help your listeners stay with you and continue to engage with you? You should be! In this episode, host Becky Parker Geist interviews award-winning marketer, international best-selling author (in 4 countries and 14 categories!), Steve Napolitan about how he creates content related to his books and his mission to achieve his biggest goals. Learn key tips...

Having all the information you need to make an informed decision about your audiobook makes it so much easier to be certain that you, as the author of a book, are making the correct decision in selecting an audiobook producer for your project.    Host BPG takes the mystery out of audiobook production pricing by sharing specific criteria   that are taken into account in considering the cost of prod...

Are you interested in having your audiobook in libraries? Listen as Michele Cobb, Publisher of AudioFile Magazine and Audio and Digital Publishing Consultant answers authors’ questions about marketing their audiobooks to the library system. Tips on topics such as increasing your visibility, reviews, contacts with influential associations and vendors, networking and the surprising benefits of the d...

Finding the right voice is critical to bringing your story to life – it can transport your audiobook listeners to new worlds.  Host BPG provides guidance to assist you in selecting the correct narrator for your audiobook as she gives tips and shines a light on the nuances of the audiobook recording process that may be unfamiliar to an author to help head off or deal with issues that do come up and...