Episode 28: Making an Audiobook

So many treats for your ears! 🎧

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In episode twenty-eight, we interviewed the unparalleled Nick Martorelli about how audiobooks are made. In this issue of the newsletter, we’re bringing you a collection of our favourite audiobook recommendations.

Before we get into them, a reminder: If you’d like to be a part of future episodes, we’re soliciting spoilerific questions for both Nightbirds and The Isles of the Gods. Ask us anything and we’ll answer in dedicated spoiler episodes. To avoid spoilers for those who haven’t read yet, don’t leave those questions in a comment — instead, email them to us at pubdates@gmail.com, or leave them at SpeakPipe via voice message.

We also want to pause a moment to share these beautiful boys with you — as we discussed on the episode, we both lost our dogs over the last couple of weeks, and of course they took a part of our hearts with them. Here’s Galahad, and Jack.

Galahad, ready to race along the beach.

Jack, snoozing on the job as an author assistant.

And now, on to lovely things! Here’s a big list of some of our favourite recent audio listens:

Kate recommends:

• The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (narrated by Will Patton)

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (narrated by Jim Dale)

• She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (narrated by Natalie Naudus)

• The Ravenels series by Lisa Kleypas, which starts with Cold-Hearted Rake (all narrated by Mary Jane Wells. FYI: these romances are Very Spicy)

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (narrated by George Guidall)

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (narrated by Frazer Douglas)

• Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan (narrated by Julia Whelan)

Amie recommends:

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (narrated by John Green)

• Hounded by Kevin Hearne (narrated by Luke Daniels)

• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (narrated by Steve West)

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (narrated by Jason Reynolds)

• The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (read by Johnathan McClain)

• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (narrated by Emily Ellet)

• Babel by R.F. Kuang (narrated by Chris Lew Kum Hoi and Billie Fulford-Brown)

And finally…

If you’re in Scotland, you can come and meet Amie at Cymera on June 4th!

If you’re in England or Ireland, make sure you’re subscribed to Amie Kaufman: Finding North for a tour announcement very soon!

And one final reminder: If you’d like to be a part of future episodes, we’re soliciting spoilerific questions for both Nightbirds and The Isles of the Gods. Ask us anything and we’ll answer in dedicated spoiler episodes. To avoid spoilers for those who haven’t read yet, don’t leave those questions in a comment — instead, email them to us at pubdates@gmail.com, or leave them at SpeakPipe via voice message.

See you next episode — your ears are in for a treat you won’t believe…