Author: Brenda
Audiobooks Buy or Rent? Service Comparisons
As a person who frequently re-listens to audiobooks, I need to own them but finding the fourth book in Ilona Andrews’ The Edge series, Steel’s Edge, available in audio at Audiobooks.com (and only at Audiobooks.com as of 4/29/2013) had me venturing into…
Rescue My Heart Time Stamp Game Winner
Congratulations to the winner of our Jill Shalvis Time Stamp game! Teresa (along with several others) entered the correct time stamp from chapter 17 when narrator Karen White uttered the words “I was just listening to an audio book,” as…
Ilona Andrews’ Steel’s Edge in Audio!
Yes it’s true. You can now listen to Renee Raudman narrate the finale of Ilona Andrews’ The Edge series! I’m not the only one who has been haunting the Recorded Books web site looking for a whisper of info on…
Chatting with Manda Collins & Anne Flosnik and an UGLY DUCKLINGS Trilogy Giveaway – Closed
As I talked with Anne Flosnik on the phone recently, she highly recommended Manda Collins, suggesting I give her books a try. Anne narrated her Ugly Duckling trilogy in 2012 and has the highest admiration for Manda’s work and appreciates…
The Gals’ Picks 2013 – How Do They Match Up to the Ratings?
We thought it would be fun to look back on our 2013 Gals Pick lists and see how our best bets are faring when compared to Audible’s rating system. Listed by release date as was our recent Audible Superstar list, the…
Audible’s 2013 Romance Superstars by Rating and Feedback
After receiving Audible’s Superstars of Romance email and looking at their list of the top twelve romance audiobooks for the first quarter of 2013, I began to wonder about the standards used to determine their Superstars. I assume sales are…
It’s all about Genre tastes … Dragon Bound
I’m quoting from Audibles Friday, March 8th email blast here: With over 1,000 rave reviews, listeners have made it clear that Thea Harrison’s Elder Races series soars above the rest of the paranormal romance pack. Dragon Bound is the steamy…
Audiobooks the new Running Mix?
Many of us have mentioned listening to audiobooks while exercising – something we don’t think twice about. I found it interesting to read an avid exerciser’s discovery of audiobooks and why she calls them her new Running Mix. “The perfect…
LIVE – Narrators Forum: Charting a Path to Success
Note: A link to the full chat is below at the end of this introduction. Untrained narrators. It was the subject of one of my recent Speaking of Audiobooks columns, Untrained Narrators? I’m Not Interested, which garnered a good deal of…