It’s time to catch up on our 2011 Listening Challenge! I became a little sidetracked with our interviews of production companies, authors, and narrators that have taken most of our column space this year. As I take a look at those Challenge categories I’ve yet to tackle, I see that I only have two to…
Lately I’ve been quite enthused with the variety of romance audiobooks released each month. My list of those books I want to listen to right now is growing at a faster pace than my available listening time. Today’s reviews reflect that variety with audiobooks from a number of romance genres including historical, romantic suspense, paranormal,…
As an audio enthusiast, it’s thrilling when I discover that a book I enjoyed in print is even better in audio. In fact, when I’m reviewing for Speaking of Audiobooks, it’s one of the highest compliments I can pay. Such success is usually due to the narrator’s ability to draw me into the story even…
It’s a triple treat at Speaking of Audiobooks today. In addition to our list of September’s new romance releases, we’re featuring Part Two of Beyond the Winners and five audiobook reviews. Up for review are Karen Robards’ Justice, Kay Hooper’s Zach’s Law, Mary Balogh’s The Secret Mistress, Sherryl Woods’ Flirting with Disaster, and Kelley Armstrong’s…
It’s all reviews again today here at Speaking of Audiobooks. We are featuring eight romance audiobooks including Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal, and European Historical. Up for review are Lisa Kleypas’ Prince of Dreams, Jayne Ann Krentz’s Wizard, Kelly Armstrong’s Spell Bound, Cynthia Eden’s Deadly Heat, Kristina Douglas’ Demon, Iris Johansen’s Blue Velvet, Christine Warren’s The…
I started talking with Alaina Mauro, Assistant Publishing Manager at Penguin Audio, in 2010. Although we were officially talking as a representative of Penguin and columnist for Speaking of Audiobooks, our conversation ran deep (and long) to our mutual love of romance audiobooks. Alaina explained the production process to me while I shared our listeners’…
Not only are we featuring a list of upcoming romance audio releases today but also five audiobook reviews and a new section we’ll run at least once a month for the remainder of 2011, Beyond the Winners. Up for review are Kristina Douglas’ Raziel, Cynthia Eden’s Deadly Fear, Alyssa Day’s Atlantis Rising, Lauren Willig’s The…
Today we’re delivering to you yet another column containing all reviews. I’m hoping to feature such a column every month to provide you with even more romance audio reviews. We’ll still have reviews in most of our other columns so continue to watch there as well. We have seven today that cover multiple romance sub-genres…
Our first annual Favorite Romance Audiobooks Poll results are in and it’s time to share! While many of the standard favorites shine through as expected, I was delighted with all the other books, narrators, and series that received a good amount of notice as well. The Poll is divided into five categories: Absolute Favorites Sub-Genre…
As Audiobook Month winds down, Speaking of Audiobooks is featuring its third special event for the month. We kicked off with our first annual Favorite Romance Audiobooks Poll followed by last week’s special edition of an All Reviews column. Now we’re finishing with a giveaway featuring two sets of the first two audiobooks in Jacquelyn…
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