Join the BAIPA experts at the BAIPA Meeting on Saturday, July 9th. The Latest on All Things Amazon: How to Manage Your Most Important Publishing Relationship in 2016 INCLUDING: ACX/Audible, presented by Becky Parker Geist Morning Speaker Presentation: 11am to 12:15pm Presenters: David Kudler of Stillpoint Digital, Ruth Schwartz the WonderLady, Judy Baker of BrandVines, and Becky Parker Geist of Pro Audio Voices General meeting begins [...]
Join Sam Barry from Book Passage at the BAIPA Meeting on Saturday, June 11th. Presentation: Book Sellers and Authors: Making the Most of Your Bookstore's Resources Sam Barry, director of Book Passage’s Path to Publishing program, will explain why independent bookstores are vital to authors, and authors who are building their careers. Morning Speaker Presentation: 11am to 12:15pm. Afternoon Workshop: 1-3pm (general meeting begins at 9am, speaker [...]
I'm in NYC and ready for Book Expo America, which starts tomorrow. I've got my list of publishers and other contacts I plan to make for Pro Audio Voices as well as for DoodleeBooks, Bay Area Independent Publishers Assn., and Dead Man's Wake. Working out of the most colorful and artistic booth in the show, Global PSD, I've got about 65 booths I've selected to [...]
I'm excited to announce some more recent audiobook launches! There are several NEW TITLES available in the Pro Audio Voices shop. And several more still waiting for you to discover them. Sooooo, what's your genre? Scottish romance: Highland Treasure by Mary McCall Travel: Travels in an American Imagination by Lee Foster Non-fiction financial planning: Naked in the Nursing Home by Harold Lustig Children's (ages 4-9): Grandmother [...]
Penny Sansevieri wrote an excellent article on audiobooks for authors interested in getting their titles into audio. Quite thorough. I encourage you to check it out here on Huffington Post. I've commented on the post and invite you to respond to my comment and share.
COMING SOON!! In the spooky spirit of Halloween, Damnation Books and Pro Audio Voices bring you: Hook House and Other Horrors by Sherry Decker. Complete with sound effects and music to help creep you out. Mwa-ha-ha! Here's a taste for your ears.
One of my favorite things to do is to bring stories to life, and some of my favorite audiences are kids. Well, I'm really excited about a project I've been collaborating on with Vlatka Herzberg. She and I met through Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, an excellent organization of which I currently serve as President. Vlatka is a spinner of folk stories that read much like [...]
I had the great pleasure of narrating A Daughter's Inheritance by Geraldine Boyce into the audiobook that is now available on Audible.com. What I love about this book is first how well it is written. Geraldine Boyce does a wonderful job of creating vivid and distinct characters that we care about and come to love. Following six generations of women and their families, some of whom we [...]
EXCITING NEWS! Raising Yourself: Making the Right Choices is now available on Audible! I have a favor to ask: if you decide to get it FREE, please click on the Audible link in the right sidebar. It will help me out and won't change a thing for you. Thanks!* Even better: you can get it FREE if you are not yet a member of Audible [...]
I was recently invited to guest blog for Joel Friedlander's exceptionally fine blog about an interview I conducted with someone from iSpeech, offering Text to Speech technology. They had expressed an interest in connecting with authors in Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, an organization on whose board I serve. I invite you to check it out and make comments here: Joel's blog