How do you get people to really listen to your book’s message?
Can audio professionals enhance the sales of your book?
Saturday, August 9, Becky Geist from Pro Audio Voices, and David Kudler from Stillpoint Digital Audio will take BAIPA members on a guided tour of the audiobook world.
Topics you will hear about:
* The marketplace – what’s going on in the audiobook industry, and is it a good choice for your book
* Your audience — are they listening to audiobooks? In what formats?
* Leveraging an audiobook — cross-selling with your print book and ebook
* Narrating your own book, or parts of it — Should you hire a professional actor, or go it alone?
* Audio other than straight audiobooks — enhanced ebooks, kids’ books, doodleebooks, book apps
Becky Parker Geist
Becky Parker Geist is a voiceover professional, owner of Pro Audio Voices, and CEO of DoodleeBooks L.L.C. Pro Audio Voices serves clients internationally.
After receiving her MFA in Acting, Becky began narrating Talking Books for the Blind at the Library of Congress in 1981, narrating over 70 titles in two years. Also a stage actor, director, and self-published author, Becky served as Executive Director of Chaucer Theatre since its inception in 1996. She currently serves as President of BAIPA, is a member of California Writers Club (Marin), and Audio Publishers Association.
David Kudler is an author and publisher, but made his living as an actor and theatre teacher for twenty years, performing on stage, in film and as a voiceover artist. In addition to holding an MA in English from Stanford University, he has an MFA in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory.
David Kudler
He is the publisher at Stillpoint Digital Press, and producer and voice talent for Stillpoint Digital Audio. He has produced audiobooks for contemporary and historical novels, epic fantasy, romance, and two of his own children’s books, The Seven Gods of Luck and Shlomo Travels to Warsaw. He is currently working with author Aaron Paul Lazar to produce a series of audiobooks for Lazar’s Gus LaGarde Mysteries.
After serving as the Acting President of BAIPA, he is happy to be back as Vice President of the Board.