Audiobook Connection – Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

Metadata can be your best friend! Been wondering what you need to know when it comes to ISBNs? The world runs on metadata. Learn the key things you need to know as an indie author so you can make good decisions about your ISBNs, whether your book is in print, ebook or audiobook format – and even the divisions in those basic formats (hard cover, paperback; downloadable or CD, for example). Host Becky Parker Geist takes you behind the scenes to provide just the info you need to make good audiobook production and marketing decisions.

A full cast or multi-voiced project may offer fun and creative opportunities for podcasting and bonus materials for your project. Join our host Becky Parker Geist to experience how the team developed an interview between CJ Thomas, the author of Top Knotch: Adventures With Our Clueless Human, and the 3 main characters of the book.

Author Joseph Durette started out as a rowdy, authority-provoking rebel just like the teens in his newly-released full-cast audiobook Fight or Flight. Learn not only about the origin story of this audiobook, but also about the decisions to go the full-cast route, with original music and sound effects. Host Becky Parker Geist directed and also performed in it, so you’ll get to hear about both sides of the experience.

There are many kinds of interruptive text, from sidebars to footnotes. How do you decide which to include—especially when talking about footnotes—and which to omit? Do you need to be consistent throughout? When you’ve got ones that really matter, how and where do you insert them? Get the answers to these questions and more in this in-depth episode on interruptive text like footnotes.

The unstoppable and incomparable story specialist Donna Griffit has been coaching and guiding entrepreneurs over the last twenty years in telling their power stories—the stories that stick, the ones that sell, those that people want to hear. Donna was tuned in to opportunities from childhood, starting her first successful business as a party clown when she saw a need. Now working with the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and venture capitalists, Donna has a story of her own that sticks.

Patricia Sullivan, author of Overland Before the Hippie Trail, is a world traveler. As a young newlywed, she and her husband decided to travel and work. A planned trip of a few months that turned into two years and the adventure of a lifetime. As an author, as soon as she released her book, people started asking when the audiobook would be released. So Patricia set off on her next adventure: getting her first audiobook produced.

Why did you write your book? What is your gift to the world and your audience? These “why” questions are actually foundational to how your audiobook can make a greater impact. Becky Parker Geist guides us through both the questions to ask ourselves and also the techniques we can use when we’re ready to make important Call To Action (CTA) production choices for our audiobooks.

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