{"id":504,"date":"2020-08-13T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=504"},"modified":"2020-08-12T00:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T08:24:55","slug":"talking-about-audiobooks-on-cat-rambos-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/08\/13\/talking-about-audiobooks-on-cat-rambos-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Audiobooks on Cat Rambo\u2019s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Cat Rambo is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and an author of considerable note. Instead of writing on my own blog today, I wrote on hers\u2014a fairly detailed piece on audiobooks and how I went about it with my books. I called it \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywumpus.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/guest-post-jeffrey-a-carver-on-how-i-ventured-into-audiobooks-and-lost-my-shirt-or-maybe-found-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How I Ventured into Audiobooks and Lost My Shirt\u2014Or Maybe Found It<\/a>.\u201d If audiobooks interest you, and especially if you\u2019re a writer wondering how that whole thing works, why not step over there and take a look. Here\u2019s a teaser:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Audiobooks are the current gold rush in publishing\u2014or so they say, and you know \u201cthey\u201d always know what they\u2019re talking about. If you don\u2019t get on the audiobook wagon, you are sure to lose out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>That might or might not be true. But one thing that is true, without a doubt, is that listening to a book narrated aloud is an experience unlike that of silently reading text. An audiobook can make or break a book for the listener. In the hands of a poor narrator, any book can be crushed. But in the hands of a skilled narrator, even humdrum text can take flight, and sparkling text can soar.\u2026<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywumpus.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/guest-post-jeffrey-a-carver-on-how-i-ventured-into-audiobooks-and-lost-my-shirt-or-maybe-found-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cat-Rambo-blog-banner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat Rambo is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and an author of considerable note. Instead of writing on my own blog today, I wrote on hers\u2014a fairly detailed piece on audiobooks and how I went about it with my books. I called it \u201cHow I Ventured into Audiobooks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}