Audiobook Connection

Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

Host: Becky Parker Geist

Engaging conversations with Authors, Narrators, Post-production audio engineers, Marketing teams as well as audio book listeners and fans. Go behind the scenes with audiobook creators as host Becky Parker Geist guides the conversation to discover the surprises, victories and challenges in publishing and producing audiobooks. Ideal for indie authors, small publishers, audiobook fans, and anyone interested in a behind-the-scenes peek into the audiobook world – as well as authors and publishers looking for tips from the pros on production and marketing. Behind-the-scenes interviews with audiobook creators as well as audiobook production and marketing tips – with episodes every other week.

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Podcast Episodes

  • Published on October 7, 2021

    Are you struggling to get yourself and your work known? Do you feel alone straining to make progress against the incoming tide? Do you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders? Are you trying to single-handedly furnish all the content for your genre for all the readers and listeners in the world? Wouldn’t [...]

  • Published on September 30, 2021

    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, [...]

  • Published on September 23, 2021

    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.” [...]

  • Published on September 16, 2021

    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 [...]

  • Published on September 9, 2021

    Do you have questions about what your finished audiobook audio files look like? What the possible formats for your audio files are and which is best for you? Without requiring you to possess a lot of tech savvy, host Becky Parker Geist acts as a gentle guide through the often mystifying and intimidating tech [...]

  • Published on September 2, 2021

    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 [...]

  • Published on August 26, 2021

    “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 [...]

  • Published on August 20, 2021

    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 [...]

  • Published on August 12, 2021

    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 [...]

  • Published on August 5, 2021

    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 [...]