The Audiobook Podcast

About The Audiobook Podcast

The Audiobook Podcast is a program for the makers and listeners of audiobooks. What goes on behind the making of a professional audiobook? We will break all that down for you. Each episode Justine Sloane-Lees and Abbe Holmes (leading professionals in voice acting and audiobooks) talk on a different topic. So whether you are a novelist, or have a professional studio or publishing house, if you are an author, director, engineer, narrator or audiobook lover, this program is for you. The Audiobook Podcast is recorded in the booth at SquareSound Studios, one of Australia's leading audiobook production houses. SquareSound was founded in 2015 and is lead by some of the best in the Industry.

Publisher

SquareSound

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Feb 2020

Latest episode

2 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jul 2026

   Beyond the Page

   After a little hiatus, we're back! In this episode, Justine catches up with Kelly Irving to talk about one of the biggest topics shaping the writing world right now: AI. Together they explore how artificial intelligence is changing the way writers create, why human expertise still matters, and what makes writing for audio different from writing for the page. Kelly Irving is a bestselling book coach, editor, and founder of the Expert Author Community. Through her Write Book Method, she h...

2. 

   1 Sept 2025

   Digital Book Culture

   In this episode we are opening a conversation with Dr Millicent Weber about her research into how people engage with books and literary culture: everything from prizes and book reviews, to audience experience at literary festivals, to social media trolling of authors, to amateur production of audiobooks, podcasts, and fan-fiction. This ongoing project is one of the first large-scale academic studies of audiobook publishing and reading. Dr Millicent Weber is an Australian Research Council DECR...

3. 

   4 Aug 2025

   Authors Republic

   Welcome back to another episode of The Audiobook Podcast. In this episode we are speaking with Lindsay Senior who is the Head of Marketing at Author’s Republic. She is a seasoned audiobook marketing and distribution expert with a passion for helping authors bring their stories to life in audio and getting their content out into the world of consumers. As a production house SquareSound keep our focus where our speciality lies (in creating audiobooks) and align with businesses that also ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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