For New Yorkers, walking is a way a life: a way to weave in and out of the fabric of an endlessly unfolding urban narrative. And as biographer and chronicler of Hollywood’s Golden Age Sydney Ladensohn Stern discovered, it’s also a marvelous time to listen. READ MORE
Tagged: Guest Post 40 Stories
By Kelly Coon
At mile eleven, I contemplated faking a heart attack. READ MORE
by Sarah Hashimoto
As a public librarian, I often hear parents and even teachers telling kids that the only reading that “counts” is traditional reading—reading with your eyes and sounding out the words independently. READ MORE
By Katharine McGee, author of American Royals
When I was in graduate school, I went jogging every morning, if only because it gave me an excuse to avoid my writing desk. READ MORE
Allan Woodrow agreed to be interviewed for today’s blog post. When no one volunteered to interview him, he agreed to interview himself. READ MORE
By Kathleen Glasgow, author of How to Make Friends with the Dark
I tend to write complicated girls carrying around a lot of pain. READ MORE
With the new paperback release of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, PRH Audio is thrilled to take a look—and a listen!—back at the making of the audio production, brilliantly performed by Nicholas Guy Smith. Keep reading to learn how he approaches the art of audiobook narration and why he loved working on A Gentleman in Moscow—a truly transporting listen about a man, Count Alexander Rostov, who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. READ MORE
by Julie Berry
I first discovered just how much audiobooks are greater than the sum of their parts when my own books found their way to audio. READ MORE
I try not to read customer reviews of my books—it was a suggestion a writer friend made to me years ago, and I mostly try to stick with it. But somehow, when I was searching for something else on Amazon, I ended up on the page of the audiobook of my first novel, The Light We Lost, which I also narrated. And before I could click away, my eye caught a review. It said: I loved the narration, which made me especially happy. I had been a little concerned about doing the reading, since I’m not a professional audiobook narrator or actress, and that reassurance that a listener enjoyed my audio interpretation meant a lot to me. READ MORE