AUDIOBOOKS: How to Make and Sell Them

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017

7:00 PM

According to The Wall Street Journal, audiobooks are the fastest growing format in publishing today. With Smartphones and digital downloads, audiobooks offer book buyers easy access and convenience.

Join us and consider how your books could be adapted for this hot market. Our speakers will address the following topics and more:

- How to publish through the Amazon owned ACX audiobook service

- How to choose and work with a narrator

- When to consider doing the narration yourself as an author/publisher

- How the production process works at an audiobook publisher

- How to work with an independent recording studio

- Where and how audiobooks are distributed

- How to promote audiobooks

SPEAKERS

APRIL SUGARMAN is a Professional Narrator/Audiobook Producer with Amazon’s Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX). Her projects include the Adult Romance Renaissance of the Heart. An accomplished SAG actress, Sugarman decided to channel her creative energies into audiobooks after taking time off to raise her two children. April is also involved with Learning Ally, a nonprofit organization that provides dyslexia support via audiobooks. www.acx.com/narrator?p=ADQYJWS2ANJAW

ANDRE STOJKA has enjoyed a full-time career as a voiceover actor for over 35 years. He can currently be heard as the voice of the Owl in much of the Winnie the Pooh franchise. Six years ago, Andre and his wife Leslie decided to combine their interest in history, with his acting, writing and production abilities and form an audiobook company, Listen 2 Read. Their first series, The American Adventure Library, now consists of 16 audiobooks of American History available for download at Audible, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Listen2read.com, etc. http://listen2read.com/

TONY PERESLETE is Co-Founder of Runkee Productions, an audio recording studio in Culver City. Under the name William Anthony, he is also the author of the Young Adult Sci-Fi Adventure trilogy I Am Fire and Air, Shadows and Crosswinds, and Anthems. Currently in the works is his forthcoming series The Case Files of Belliver Holmes to be released first as a radio serial and later in book form. http://runkeeproductions.com/

MODERATOR/PRODUCER

ROBIN QUINN, Book Coach and Editor, has provided editorial support to the independent publishing community for over 25 years. She specializes in uplifting memoir and self-help nonfiction. She also regularly produces and moderates panels for publishers and writers groups in the Los Angeles area. www.writingandediting.biz  

DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017

TIME: 7:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Veterans Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City. Corner of Overland & Culver. Parking is free onsite. The parking entrance is on Culver. The PALA sign will be on the meeting room door. NOTE: Wear layered clothing. The room is usually comfortable, but the temperature may vary.

COST: $5 for PALA members; $10.00 for IWOSC members, $15.00 for nonmembers. To pay, go to:

http://www.publishersassociationoflosangeles.com/

QUESTIONS: Contact Robin Quinn, Program Producer, 818-813-3716, quinnrobin@aol.com.