Audio for Authors: Recent Episodes
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Have you ever noticed that, after listening to a podcast or an audiobook, you feel like you know the author?
Our ears bring information into our brains in a different way than our eyes by reading the words--or even our eyes through watching a screen.
I’m no aural scientist, but what I personally get with audio is a connection. A connection to the author, to the words, to the story, to the material. It sinks into your brain, I can almost feel it seeping through the nooks and crannies of my mind like water over porous volcanic rock.
This is what I’m after. This is the connection I love to have as a reader and this is what I strive for as an author. This is why I’ve built this course so you too can connect with your readers.
The rest, a booming audiobook market, smartphones around the world with one-tap access to audio, and a relatively untapped market compared to print and ebooks, is gravy.
I hope that I have inspired you at some point in this book to create something of audio.
If you love audiobooks, chances are you’re going to hook others into getting into audiobooks as well.
In audiobook marketing, it’s important to think of not only the creation but also the consumption of the medium. I’m going to assume that because you’re reading or listening to this book that you’re an audio fan yourself.
But because we’re working in a different medium than words on paper or words in an e-book, we should make that an advantage and use the audio medium to its fullest potential.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.?
My only concern with using dictation is how my mind, and how my imagination, will adjust to it.
As I’m sure I have gone on and on about elsewhere in this book, my first audiobook production was a disaster.
I want you to get your (short?) book recorded, distributed, and available in the audiobook market.
I'm an audio guy. I like headphones in, walk in the woods with Pepper, and lay those decibels on me.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.? -- Chinese Proverb?
Have you ever noticed that, after listening to a podcast or an audiobook, you feel like you know the author?
Yes, this is a book–and audiobook. Want to get it all in video and walk-you-through-how-to-do-it online course? Listen in.