In today’s installment of Behind The Audio, we take a look at the audio edition of Buzz Bissinger’s Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son.
Available from Simon & Schuster Audio, the audiobook is narrated by Bissinger — of Friday Night Lights fame — himself. For an audio excerpt from Father’s Day CLICK HERE, and for more from Bissinger about the recording of the audiobook, check out the following video:
In today’s installment of Behind The Audio, we bring you an exclusive, in-the-studio photo of Peter Hermann recording the audio edition of the forthcoming Ben Coes novel, The Last Refuge, for Macmillan Audio.
Hermann previously recorded the audio edition of Coes’s Power Down, as well as audio editions of James Patterson’s Private and Hermann Hesse’s classic Steppenwolf.
If you’d like to submit a photo or video for Behind The Audio, please feel free to email me at aboretz@publishersweekly.com.
Oasis Audio — publisher of the audio edition of The Vow — is partnering with B&H Publishing Group to launch a Romantic Getaway Giveaway that asks fans to share their real-life stories of exceptional love and commitment.
The Vow is the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter: when Krickitt suffered a severe head injury that left her without any memory of her marriage, Kim stayed true to his wife. Through the darkest times, he insisted, “I’m no hero. I made a vow.”
In celebration of the Carpenters’ faithfulness, participants will be encouraged to submit their own “vow” story. The contest is hosted at the Oasis Audio Facebook Page, but participants can also submit their stories to contest@oasisaudio.com.
The contest will accept submissions until June 30. Facebook fans will vote for their favorites throughout the month of July. The 10 entries that receive the most votes will be entered into a pool from which Oasis Audio will choose the grand prize winner. All winners will be named on the Oasis Audio Website on August 20, 2012.
The grand-prize winner will receive an all-expenses-paid weekend getaway to Chicago for two, including round-trip airfare to Chicago, two nights deluxe hotel accommodations, limousine service to and from the airport, and dinner for two at a Chicago landmark restaurant, as well as a $200 Visa gift card for additional expenses. Five 2nd prize winners will receive a $50 Visa gift card. Twenty-five more entries will be chosen randomly to receive an autographed copy of The Vow audio book, signed by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter.
This is just a quick post to update everyone about the new shipping address for submitting Audio Review Copies.
The PW Audio Intern and I are moving back to New York City and, from this point forward, all Audio Review Copies must be shipped to Publishers Weekly’s NYC Office at the following address:
Publishers Weekly
71 West 23rd Street
Suite 1608
New York, NY 10010
212-377-5704
Please update your records. And if anyone has any Audio Review Copy submission questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at aboretz@publishersweekly.com. Thanks!!
Today, our Informal Audie Awards Poll goes out with a bang: this is the Big One, the Highest Honor, the Superbowl of Audio Awards. Today we bring you, Audiobook of the Year.
And, as you might expect, the audiobooks in this category are nothing short of spectacular. The nominees for Audiobook of the Year are:
Well, which title should be crowned Audiobook of the Year?
The penultimate installment in our Informal Audie Awards Poll looks at a category that seems to get more and more popular every year: audiobooks read by the author.
The nominees for Narration by the Author or Authors are:
Which author deserves to win the Audie for Narration by the Author or Authors in 2012:
Today — in the third installment of our Informal Audie Awards Poll — we turn to one of the most prestigious prizes up for grabs at this years Audies: Distinguished Achievement in Production.
This one boasts some heavy hitters, some big names, and, of course, some great audiobooks. The Nominees for Distinguished Achievement in Production are:
Who should be going home with the Hardware? It’s up to YOU.
Today, Listen Up is excited to launch a new feature — for which we post behind-the-scenes photos and videos from audiobook recording studios. We like to call it Behind The Audio. And to kick things off, we’re bringing out the Big Guns: check out this exclusive photo of Augusten Burroughs recording the audio edition of his latest book, This Is How, for Macmillan Audio.
And while you’re at it, check out an audio excerpt from This Is How, RIGHT HERE.
And if you’d like to submit a photo or video for Behind The Audio, please feel free to email me at aboretz@publishersweekly.com
In Part II of our Informal Audie Awards Poll, we’re taking a look at two categories — both of which are among my favorites — featuring audiobooks with more than one narrator: Multi-Voiced Performance and Audio Drama.
In the Multi-Voiced Narrator Category, the nominees are:
And in the Audio Drama Category, the nominees are:
Well, Gentle Readers, the choice is yours. To whom do the Audie Awards Go?
With the Audie Awards fast approaching, we thought it might be fun to highlight some of the great nominees with an Informal Audie Awards Poll — voted on by you, the readers of Listen Up and PW.
To kick things off, we’ll take a look at two very competitive categories: Solo Narration – Male and Solo Narration – Female.
For Solo Narration – Male, the nominees are:
And for Solo Narration – Female, the nominees are:
Who do YOU think will win? The polls are NOW OPEN:
