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
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Join host Becky Parker Geist and get to know our Audiobook Marketing Program Concierge, Johnny Robinson. Hear about the ways authors and the marketing team come together to learn and move past challenges as well as sharing victories in marketing. Learn more about the community aspect of marketing and audiobooks. Johnny also hosts the [...]
In this fifth episode in this series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP), host Becky Parker Geist helps you think through the gathering of your marketing team. If you’ve created your Marketing Blueprint as we discussed in the first in this series (Episode AC-T-52), you know what tasks need to be done. Figuring out [...]
