Lunch and Learn: Audiobooks - An Overview for Authors

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In this one-hour session, Amy Rubinate will guide you through the booming world of audiobooks, the fastest-growing segment in publishing for over a decade. You’ll learn why it’s essential to write with audio in mind, how to decide whether to narrate your own book or hire a professional, and how to choose the right voice for your story. We’ll also learn about proven strategies to promote your audiobook and boost sales, while exploring key insights into the current and future audiobook world. This class is taught by Amy Rubinate, whose Los Angeles studio, Mosaic Audio, has produced over 3,500 audiobooks for major publishers.

About Amy Rubinate:

Amy Rubinate is an award-winning audiobook narrator, director, producer, and the author of two historical middle grade graphic novels, Annie and the Unsinkable Ship (2024) and Kate and the City of Fire (2023) for Capstone Publishing’s Girls Survive series. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University.

After founding the boutique audiobook publisher Ideal Audiobooks, Amy bought Mosaic Audio and built it into one of the largest audiobook production companies in the industry, with recording studios in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Audie Award and AudioFile Earphone Award-winning Mosaic Audio has produced over 3,000 titles for major publishers. Amy has narrated over 300 audiobooks, notably, Kiera Cass's The Selection series, Megan McDonald's Judy Moody series, Sharon Sala's Blessings, Georgia series, Kristan Higgins' Blue Heron series, and Wendy Wax's Ten Beach Road series.

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