Audiobook Narration, Production And Marketing Tips With Derek Doepker
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Audiobooks are one of the fastest-growing segments in publishing and the expansion of podcasts onto every major platform means there are more ways to market to audio-first consumers (which increasingly includes me!) In this episode, Derek Doepker gives some tips on why audiobooks are so important as a format, self-narration, working with a narrator, plus, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.9 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.3 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 508 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 18th of September 2020 as I record this. |
| 0:41.9 | So today I'm talking to Derek Depka about audiobooks. We start off by talking about how he got into writing, |
| 0:48.9 | multiple streams of income and lessons learned, and then we talk more detail about audio books, |
| 0:54.0 | why they're so important, |
| 0:55.9 | tips for recording yourself, working with narrators, audiobook marketing and some of the things |
| 1:01.5 | that might be holding you back. So that is coming up and ironically we had a slight mic issue |
| 1:07.8 | in the first section. It's not too bad, but we got that fixed in the second |
| 1:12.1 | half, but I wanted to mention it because it is an audiobook episode. So that's coming up. |
| 1:19.7 | In publishing and marketing news this week, talking of audio, Amazon music now includes podcasts. |
| 1:27.4 | So you can find this show and also my |
| 1:29.6 | Books and Travel podcast on Amazon Music or Amazon Podcasts, whatever they want to call it, |
| 1:35.0 | and it is now native to your various devices. And with Spotify rumoured to be moving into |
| 1:41.5 | audiobooks and Amazon moving into podcasts, it is everyone doing |
| 1:45.0 | everything in audio these days. Of course, Apple were the first really to do podcasts and audio. |
| 1:50.9 | And of course, Google Play has podcasts, Google Podcasts, Google Audio. So it really is. |
| 1:56.6 | Being around every single platform is super important because everyone chooses their ecosystem. |
| 2:02.9 | So also in audio, written word media has launched Audio Thicket.com for audiobook promotion, |
| 2:09.4 | which is so good. And now we do have CHIRP by BookBub, which is available. |
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