Guest Reviewer Jennifer Conner

Jennifer Conner has had her nose in a book for as long as she can remember. In an attempt to redefine her identity after motherhood, she began blogging at The Literate Housewife Review in January 2007. It was a difficult bedtime routine with her daughters that first prompted her to pursue audiobooks. After listening to Simon Vance narrate The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, she discovered that she is a true audiobook geek at heart.  Imported from Michigan, she currently lives in Southwest Virginia with her family. In addition to her blog, you can find Jennifer on Twitter as @lithousewife.    Diamond Ruby: A Novel Written by Joseph Wallace,  Narrated by …

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Talking With…Robert Fass

Equally at home in a vast variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, styles, characters and dialects, Robert Fass has been reviewed in AudioFile Magazine as “masterful”, earning praise for his “crisp narration”, “personal touch,” and “distinct characterizations” in titles by such modern and classic masters as Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Asimov, Jeffery Deaver and John Steinbeck. He is a three-time Audie nominee and just won his first Audie for Empire of Liberty by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood; he was also a 2009 Grammy candidate for Anticancer: A New Way of Life by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber.  He lives in New York City. Find Robert on-line at AudioFile Magazine and …

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Talking With…Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, an Audie Award nominee, and a Parent’s Choice Award winner, and has performed over 100 full-length audiobook narrations. She makes her home in Portland, Maine, where she works on stage and behind the mic, producing, directing, and narrating audiobooks and full-cast recordings. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. You can find Tavia on line at  taviagilbert.com About Audio Books: AA/JP: How did you get started in audiobooks? TG: I’ve been so lucky. I took a couple of workshops in animation and another in audiobook narration taught by Pat Fraley and Hillary Huber, and soon …

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