SYNOPSIS
Connecting actors with industry professionals for feedback and perspective are the aims of this program. During this edition, some participants will have the opportunity to submit audiobook excerpts recorded from home and have the samples reviewed by our guest audiobook producer/director, Jessica Kaye (see Instructor Bio below). If you want to just listen in and see what happens, we encourage you to join us and absorb as much information as possible. It is all about learning and building your knowledge base. There will also be Q&A opportunities during this program.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Jessica Kaye
Jessica is the producer and director of more than 1,000 audiobooks. Her work includes audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperAudio, Macmillan and others. She is the director of the current Grammy nominee CARRY ON: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis, read by Don Cheadle, and directed the 2018 Grammy Award winner for Best Spoken Recording, Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist and has directed two of the past 4 Odyssey Award-winning audiobook productions, including Rotters in 2012 and the 2016 winner, The War That Saved My Life. Jessica is also is the author of the recently released, The Guide to Audiobooks (How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook) . The book is a road map for writers and narrators that want to learn how to acquire book rights, produce, publish and distribute audiobooks.
She is cofounder of Curated Audio (curatedaudio.net), a full-service audiobook production company for independent authors as well as for outsourced production from publishing companies.
Jessica’s 1990’s-era company The Publishing Mills won a Grammy Award and a subsequent second Grammy nomination. Many other audiobooks she has directed have been Grammy-nominated or Grammy Award-winning, as well.
Jessica has served as President of the Audio Publishers Association and currently serves on its Board of Directors. She founded Big Happy Family, LLC, a digital distribution company for audiobooks (www.bighappyfamilyaudio.com) in 2006 and is the creator and co-editor of the short story anthology Meeting Across the River (Bloomsbury, 2005) and a contributor to the science fiction anthology Occupied Earth (Polis Books, 2015). She is currently serving as President of the SoCal Chapter of MWA, Mystery Writers of America.
Twitter: @jessicakayeEsq
Instagram: thisiscuratedaudio
The Guide to Audiobooks (How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook) - Indiebound Books, Barnes and Noble and Amazon
REQUIREMENTS
For those interested in submitting recorded excerpts, we will email everyone on the RSVP and Waitlist additional details and instructions over this weekend (December 18 and December 19), so sign up as soon as possible. The email will be titled: DLF VO Lab - Audition Review 1221. Please note: A limited number of recorded excerpts will be selected for review. For questions, email ashuford@sagaftra.foundation.
