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Transforming a Graphic Novel Into an Audiobook

AudioFile spoke with Dreamscape Media publisher Tammy Faxel and Deyan Audio’s Khai Dattoli and Bryan Lincoln about adapting and producing Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin’s graphic novel Illegal for audio. AudioFile: What was it about Illegal that made you interested in adapting it as an audiobook? Why is it an important title…
AudioFile
May 28, 2019
AudiobooksMiscellany

AudioFile’s Golden Voice Lifetime Awards

AudioFile Magazine has honored five new recipients, January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini, Bahni Turpin, Suzanne Toren, and Johnny Heller, with its highest accolade, the Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award.  About Golden Voices Since 1992, AudioFile has bestowed the Golden Voice prize on only 24 voice artists, including Frank Muller, George Guidall, Barbara Rosenblat, Simon Vance, Jim Dale, Martin Jarvis, Katherine…
AudioFile
June 5, 2019
AudiobooksFiction

Narrator of “Friday Black” discusses Afrofuturism

Corey Allen narrates Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s moving collection of short stories, Friday Black (Recorded Books). The themes of these stories include the power divide, minimum-wage work, racism, education, and the consequences of ethical decisions, and Corey shares why it’s a collection well worth your listening time. “What Nana manages to capture in this…
AudioFile
February 22, 2019
AudiobooksFiction

Adriana Trigiani and a Sweeping Big Band Era Novel

Novelist Adriana Trigiani joins us to talk about her latest audiobook, Tony's Wife, and narrator Edoardo Ballerini’s engaging performance. In a story about the music of the last century—the Big Band music of the 1940s—two talented working class kids, Tony & Chi Chi, marry and become a successful singing act until time, temptation, and the responsibilities…
AudioFile
February 1, 2019
AudiobooksFictionMiscellany

In the Studio with “I Love Lucy”

Go behind the scenes of making an audio drama as Susan Loewenberg, producing director of L.A. Theatre Works, tells us about their new production of I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom. AudioFile: Tell us about the casting process for "I Love Lucy," especially for the…
AudioFile
January 18, 2019
AudiobooksFictionRomanceThrillers

Intense Romantic Suspense from CD Reiss

Not all romance audiobooks are meet-cutes and happily-ever-afters. Author CD Reiss won the 2017 Audie Award for Erotica for Marriage Games, narrated by Sebastian York and Elena Wolfe. The first audiobook in her new series, Rough Edge (Flip City Media Inc.), takes on war, violence, and sex. The content may not be for every listener,…
Caitlin Augusta
January 10, 2019
AudiobooksFiction

Audiobook Transforms Marvel Comics with Cast

A full-cast experience transforms a year’s worth of comics into a “movie for your mind.” Richard Rohan narrates the scenes, while a full cast of 47 actors makes the characters come alive—along with an outrageous number of sound effects including explosions, sirens, and screams. The story is as good on…
AudioFile
January 2, 2019
AudiobooksNonfiction

Chatting With the Narrator of “Eliza Hamilton”

January LaVoy narrated an impeccably researched biography of the philanthropist and unsung hero married to Alexander Hamilton, one of our 2018 Best Audiobooks in Biography & History. Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton (Simon & Schuster Audio) is a richly detailed audiobook concentrating…
AudioFile
December 27, 2018
AudiobooksFiction

“Witchmark” Blends Magic, Romance and History

C.L. Polk's WITCHMARK (Recorded Books) is a fantasy debut that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance in an original world with a historical setting. Cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his…
AudioFile
December 6, 2018
AudiobooksChildren's Books

Maryrose Wood Brings The Incorrigibles Home

Spending time with The Incorrigibles might be the perfect prelude to upcoming family gatherings. If you anticipate the same old jokes from Uncle Otto, and you dread meeting your Cousin Alice’s curious new companion, take an audio dose of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (HarperAudio) to make it all seem manageable.…
Robin Whitten
November 21, 2018
AudiobooksFictionRomance

Comfort Audiobooks That Will Brighten Your Day

I’ve been under the weather with a very bad cold, and there hasn’t been much that’s made me happy, with the exception of Simon Prebble’s narration of THE PERFECT LOVER (Harper Audio) by Stephanie Laurens. Whenever the misery gets especially miserable, I hit play and sink into his all-encompassing storytelling. THE PERFECT LOVER is…
Caitlin Augusta
November 15, 2018

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