Audiobook Connection - Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams
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 weekly. #C-Suite Radio.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 289
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
AC-I-90 Get Your Game FACE On - Dawn Fuchs Coleman: Interview
Do you have questions about how to profitably run your own business? Increase your bottom line AND your top line? Avoid pitfalls and increase your highs while decreasing your lows?
Host Becky Par…
AC-I-89 Into the Weeds with Royalties - Interview with Darren Speers of Authors Republic
How royalties work and what the different kinds of platforms are and the payment models can feel like getting lost in the forest. Audiobook digital distribution is a complex process involving prepar…
AC-T-88 Full Cast - Creating a WOW Audiobook
Ever considered getting your book or script into audio with a full cast of actors to bring it to life? Host Becky Parker Geistshares several samples from full cast projects produced by Pro Audio Voic…
AC-T-87 Oh the Possibilities! Samples from Children’s Books
Join Host Becky Parker Geist in reviewing highlights of four different children’s stories recorded as audiobooks, with various music and sound effects emphasizing aspects of each story, delightfully …
AC-I-86 Interview with Maggie Newcomb
Have you ever wondered what mental illness is like up close and personal? What is it like to live with this debilitating condition, and what effects does it have on the family? Is it a curse? Or can …
AC-T-85 Play Script to Audiobook: A Conversation with Trinacria Theatre Co.
Do you find the legaleze surrounding copyrights confusing and frustrating? The nuances of meaning and interpretation, what’s legal, ethical, and moral to do and not to do regarding copyrights. You wa…
ACT-T-84 Be a Leader by Being a Follower
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 …
AC-T-83 What Kind of Impact Do You Want to Have?
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 t…
AC-T-82 Dingbats, Icons, Symbols & Spaces
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 conside…
AC-T-81 Podcasting Your Audiobook
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 you…
AC-T-79 The Listener Experience - How to Review Your Audiobook Files with Your Listener in Mind
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…
AC-T-78 Following Clues to Success
“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 Pa…
AC-T-77 Challenges with Memoirs – Tips
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, audio…
AC-I-76 Interactive Children’s Books an Interview with Brad Pohl
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 …
AC-I-75 Recording your own audiobook in partnership with a pro narrator – Interview with Laura Davis
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’…
AC-T-74 Sounds as Symbols
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 th…
AC-I-73 Interview with Melyssa Barrett
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,…
AC-T-72 Speech by any other Pronunciation is NOT the Same
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 someon…
AC-T-71 Yikes!
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.
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AC-I-70 Adapting Screenplays and Theatre Scripts into Audiobooks - Interview with Jerrilee Geist
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 ou…