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SPS-422: The Audio Explosion with James Blatch and Victoria Gerken from Podium Audio.

12 April 2024
Stuart Grant
Categories: Featured, Podcast

Join James and Victoria Gerken from Podium Audio as they discuss how audio is exploding the world of publishing and providing authors with another income stream.

Show Notes

Show notes:
– The low down on the NEW How to Make Money with Translations course with Bella Andre
– SPS LIVE show in London, early bird price finishes on this Sunday 14th April
– Victoria Gerken from Podium Audio, one of the largest publishers of Audiobooks gives the back story of Podium
– Podium’s submission process for authors
– How Podium Audio make sure authors are listened too and expectations are met
– Distribution and being exclusive with Audible
– AI and the future of audiobooks
– Audiobook narrators
– Advice for authors looking to submit their book to Podium (

Resources mentioned in this episode:

SPS LIVE 2024 TICKETS – GET THEM HERE!

PATREON: Self Publishing Formula Show’s Patreon page

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:

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SPF-137: Why You Need to be Publishing Audiobooks – with Tina Dietz

14 September 2018
Mark Dawson
Categories: Podcast


The popularity of devices like Alexa have created a rise in the demand for audio to educate and entertain commuters and laundry-folders alike. James talks to Tina Dietz about creating audiobooks from both our fiction and non-fiction work.

This week’s highlights include:

  • The importance of creativity in every type of business
  • How creativity makes us more productive
  • The different approaches to audiobooks by fiction and non-fiction authors
  • Thoughts on narrating your book yourself
  • The range of cost for producing an audiobook, including what you can expect to pay a narrator
  • Auditioning narrators to find the right voice for your book
  • Providing character information to narrators to find a good fit
  • Reading your book outloud yourself to get a sense of your characters’ voices
  • The three reasons for starting a podcast

Resources mentioned in this episode:

PATREON: Self Publishing Formula Podcast’s Patreon page

TINA’S WEBSITE: StartSomethingPositive.com Creative Business Solutions

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