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…
June is Audiobook Month and in celebration of that event, we have a special edition of Speaking of Audiobooks for you today and we’re featuring all reviews – seven of them including our first “dueling” review. Most are longer in length than our usual mini-reviews and include Only Love by Elizabeth Lowell, Visions of Heat…
The time has finally come for our first annual Favorite Romance Audiobooks Poll and it’s one I’ve been waiting for with great anticipation. When I first envisioned this poll two years ago in the first days of our Speaking of Audiobooks column, I merely thought of it as a comprehensive list of our favorite romance…
Speaking of Audiobooks has now been around for two years! This represents our 52nd column and if you are wondering about anything concerning romance audiobooks, you’ll probably find it in our audio archives. They remain an invaluable resource. It’s Time! Our Group Discussion of Slave to Sensation On April 6th, we announced our Group Listen…
If you haven’t heard about Audible’s new venture, Audible Creation Exchange (ACX), have I got news for you. On May 12th Audible announced a dynamic online audiobook rights marketplace, audiobook production platform, and online sales system. Its aim? To increase the number of audiobooks by offering a place for audiobook professionals to connect and produce…
Our Group Listen of Nalini Singh’s Slave to Sensation starts this week. If you were looking for it on April 25th, its release was delayed and is now set for May 4th in CD/MP3 CD formats. Tantor doesn’t know the exact date of its Audible release but expects it to be within a week of…
As audio enthusiasts we often wonder about routine decisions made by production companies. How are audiobooks and narrators chosen? What are the considerations when matching a narrator to a particular book? Do they take listeners’ requests seriously? What is a general production schedule? Why is notification of upcoming releases often such a mystery? Over the…
With Tantor’s announcement to release all of Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series (that’s ten books) in less than five months during 2011 (4/25 – 9/19), we’re celebrating their decision to do so. I’m sure many listeners will be thrilled to see the release of this favorite series as well as the fact that there won’t be…
As much as I like to include Mini Reviews in each column, it’s not always possible especially when our columns feature highly entertaining interviews with personalities such as Phil Gigante and Anne Stuart. We want all the attention focused on our guests. Since both of those interviews occurred in 2011, we decided to do something…
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