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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…

We’ve been lucky enough to work with some real game-changing writers recently. Real authentics with big, ole beating hearts. Not so easy to come by, let me tell ya.  Everyone’s favorite gorilla dog spirit animal in Bud Smith has just published his audiobook with us in F250, and it’s live on our site right now. Go and check it out. Plus Mr. Smith gave The Talking Book 244 tips on how to successfully write the perfect short story.  Holy hell, is it a humdinger! I read it, wrote a story right after and saw INSTANT RESULTS! No joke.

Our good pal Sam Pink and the ever brilliant Jereme Dean wrote a piece about the oncoming onslaught of pseudo intelligentsia in your local neighborhood. Simply frightening. This is pure nightmare fuel. Reader beware!
Sam Pink's Upon Visiting An Intelligentsia For The First Time
Bud Smith's How To Write A Short Story
We’re just finishing production on the audiobook for Bad Sex by Clancy martin which we procured from the ever-graceful Giancarlo DiTrappano over at Tyrant Books. A gem, that one. Plus we’ve got Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne coming down the pipeline from Orison. The incomparable Jim Meskimen of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, There Will Be Blood, Parks and Recreation and a million other things is reading for Mr. Melville. Damn lucky to have him. 

This is all just the tip of the iceberg, you know? You can just see the jagged chunk at the top, but the big stuff is underneath, waiting in the cold dark water.

Until next week, true hearts. 

My prayer flies like a word on a wing,

K Hartrum
Senior Editor, Talking Book

PS - Our Editor in Chief and Founder Ben Matchar bestows garlands upon you!
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