Running Sucks. Reading Doesn’t. How audiobooks transformed a reluctant runner’s routine.

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Running Sucks. Reading Doesn’t. How audiobooks transformed a reluctant runner’s routine. Submitted by PRHA Contributor on October 18, 2018

By Heather Job, publicist for Listening Library

One of my favorite jokes to make, when people tell me they’ve taken up running, is “What are you running from?” One of my other favorite jokes to make, when people tell me they’ve taken up running, is “You can’t run from death.” People don’t tend to think these jokes are very funny, but I stand by them. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, Andrew Smith, Delilah S. Dawson, fitness, Grasshopper Jungle, ILLUMINAE, Jay Kristoff, Kevin Hearne, Kicks, Kill the Farm Boy, lauren graham, running, talking as fast as i can

Adib Khorram Darius the Great is Not Okay

DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY Author Adib Khorram on Language and Identity Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on August 27, 2018

Darius Kellner has never fit in. His mom is Iranian, and his dad is white. He doesn’t really speak Farsi, but his little sister, Laleh, does. He’s into Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and tea. Not many people at his high school in Portland, Oregon, share those interests. He also has depression, which doesn’t make anything easier. Read more

Tagged: Adib Khorram, darius the great is not okay, family travel

From Behind the Mic to a Walk in Central Park Submitted by PRHA Contributor on August 23, 2018

Saving Central Park‘s author, narrator, producer, and director took a delightful walk through Central Park. Luckily, we can travel along with them as narrator Erin Bennett shares the special experience with us. Read more

Tagged: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Erin Bennett, gardener-cook, Saving Central Park

A Discussion With the Talent Behind The Distance Home Submitted by Erin Murphy on August 22, 2018

The Distance Home, the debut from author Paula Saunders, has been called “an exquisite, searing portrait of family and of people coping with whatever life throws at them while trying to keep close to one another,” in a starred review in Booklist. Read more

Tagged: Guest Post, Paula Saunders, Rebecca Lowman, The Distance Home

Claire Legrand Discusses the Voices of Furyborn Submitted by PRHA Contributor on May 29, 2018

I’ve been living with the characters of Furyborn for fourteen years, since I first came up with the idea for the Empirium Trilogy in 2004, just after graduating high school. Read more

Tagged: claire legrand, Fiona Hardingham, furyborn, scifi

Kenneth Davis on the Value of Hearing Stories Submitted by PRHA Contributor on May 11, 2018

“Tell me a story.”

It is a universal request that every child makes. Telling stories—and listening to them—are part of our human DNA, what makes people tick. Read more

Tagged: Adenrele Ojo, family travel, Guest Post, kenneth davis, Macleod Andrews, more deadly than war

Sergio De La Pava on Audio Making a Comeback Submitted by PRHA Contributor on April 30, 2018

Who says the radio play is dead? What’s that…everyone? Okay, but hear me out. In their day, radio plays were definitely a thing. But were they good? Hell yeah they were good. Why else would I bring them up? Read more

Tagged: author, Edoardo Ballerini, Guest Post, lost empress, sergio de la pava

Vesper Stamper: The Possibilities Within Audiobooks Submitted by PRHA Contributor on April 24, 2018

We illustrators enter the field because we want to engage many different kinds of people with our art and communicate big ideas in innovative ways. Ours is a mass medium by design. That’s why we’ve seen so many illustrated works find their way into lush Hollywood screen adaptations—Brian Selznick’s books, or the Marvel comics movies, for example. Read more

Tagged: Guest Post, vesper stamper, what the night sings

How William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Helped Narrator Marc Thompson with Shakespeare Submitted by PRHA Contributor on April 23, 2018

A few years ago I was given the opportunity to take part in performing the audiobook of William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, written by the incredibly talented Ian Doescher. Read more

Tagged: family travel, Ian Doescher, Marc Thompson, sci-fi, scifi, Star Wars, William shakespeare, William Shakespeare's Star Wars, William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back, William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return, William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken

Diane Magras: Audio Tales of Old and New Submitted by PRHA Contributor on April 20, 2018

Think back to the origin of stories. They were told beside a fire by a bard, an old one, a teller of tales. People clustered round, nodding at the rise and fall of the speaker’s voice. Many stories were of adventure, of battle and bravery, of people seemingly bigger than the listeners. Read more

Tagged: author, Diane Magras, Guest Post, The Mad Wolf's Daughter

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