Dearest readers, writers and listeners,
This is it. The very first Talking Book newsletter. Do you feel it? Are the hairs on your arms standing on end? Mine too. People care and they’re talking and listening and writing and speaking cool and strange and beautiful. Other stuff too. But first thing’s first. Let’s decide right now what this is. Once a week (no promises) we'll toss you some low-key hearsay on the rumblings of Talking Book, and maybe even the weirdo literary world abroad.
But wait! What is Talking Book? Talking Book (previously known as Spoken Word Inc) is the audiobook publishing house of the future. Talking Book is a lit blog and (hopefully) a real life community of writerly numskulls. Talking Book is a lot of things. First and foremost, it’s a bunch of stories and hell of a lot of cool people. That’s it. Nailed it. People and stories. Pories?
What else do we do? As I said we publish audiobooks out of Asheville, NC. That’s what we’ve been doing and that’s what we’re going to keep doing. We make audiobooks and sell them on 16 channels (and growing) including the big baddies like Audible, Amazon, iTunes and all the rest. Want to use pro voice actor that’s radical and out of sight? We do that. Want us to ship you a recording booth so you can read your own work? We do that too. We also make films and the occasional audiobook on vinyl. Anyway, enough shameless self-promotion. On to the good stuff…
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