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Had a great time this year at the virtual Audiobook Publishers Association Conference. One takeaway was that there was almost no movement on AI narration. The same pubs who were committed to human only narration in 2024 still are; the one that was ambivalent still is.
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Monthly reading wrap-up showing a grid of book covers for March 2026, including a mix of historical fiction, romance, and contemporary titles.

Here’s what I read in March.

I tend to bounce between reading and audiobooks depending on what I’m doing—stitching, dyeing, or just sitting down with a book.

Do you prefer physical books, audiobooks, or a mix?

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Currently reading:

📖 1919 - Eve L. Ewing
📲 Conjuring the Hurricane - Sarah Hanson
🎧 The Women - Kristin Hannah

What are you reading right now?

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Chapter 1: Exclusive Audiobook Serialization of OUT THROUGH THE IN DOOR

To Get Out of Here Alive, Start by Going In

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RE: #audiobooks

Can we normalize some things in audiobooks?

1) read all the things in the book (dedications, authors notes, trigger warnings etc)

2) if you're going to add the first chapter of the next book, tell me the name of the book? Don't go from epilogue to chapter one without warning.

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Hi, talented authors! It's #ShamelessSelfpromoThursday —time for a fresh round of #WritersLift! 🌟 Drop your #links, #websites, #books, #art, #audiobooks, #YouTube channels, or anything else you're proud of. #writingcommunity #illustrations #readingcommunity #booksky

We See Things They'll Never See written by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday and narrated by Diana Blue; Understanding Autism, written by Chloe Silverman and narrated by Margie Lenhart

Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Awareness Day, and we're taking a moment to recognize and celebrate the neurodivergent community. Check out these #audiobooks, available wherever you listen:

We See Things They'll Never See, narrated by Diana Blue

Understanding Autism, narrated by Margie Lenhart

Karma Girl: The Bigtime Series, Book 1 Amazon.com: Karma Girl: The Bigtime Series, Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition): Jennifer Estep, Amanda Ronconi, Tantor Media: Audible Books & Originals

Over the years, many readers have asked about audiobooks for the Bigtime series, and I'm so glad they are finally being released. I will share more pre-order links as they become available. Thank you for reading! ❤

4/4 #audio #audiobook #audiobooks #paranormalromance #superheroes #books #romance

The rest of the Bigtime audiobooks will roll out over the next several months. Here is the release schedule:

📘Karma Girl—Aug. 11
📘Hot Mama—Sept. 1
📘Jinx—Dec. 15
📘Nightingale—Jan. 5, 2027
📘Fandemic—March 23, 2027

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Lawsuit against Audible:

C.D. Reiss v. Audible Inc., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 1:24-cv-05923-JLR.

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#CrookedHeart by #LissaEvans. A fantastic book! Great characters. Brilliant plot. I don't want to say more - no spoilers here.
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Reacher smiled at him, “Make me.” Exit Strategy by Lee Child and Andrew Child #audiobooks #publiclibrary

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# Podcasts I listen to. I'm glad You've stumbled onto my Podroll page. Go here if you're looking for my podcast. I love---and let me repeat this again---love, podcasts. They aren't locked to an ecosystem despite everybody in the tech and publishing industry hating this fact. Tech and publishers and producers can't stand the fact they operate on protocols rather than platforms and I love podcasts because of that, but there's other reasons I love the medium. You don't have to pay for podcasts. You don't have to be locked into one app. Because I have physical disabilities, podcasts are a fantastic way for me to rest and learn at the same time. I can just lay in bed and listen. Podcasts also must contain audio description by design. Otherwise, sighted people won't know what's happening either. Sighted people are limited by the audio medium and this means they don't have an advantage over me. My tastes are split between fiction podcasts and nonfiction podcasts. ## Fiction podcasts. I find my favorite fiction podcasts using The End audio fiction directory or this audio drama directory that looks like Wikipedia. Typically, I listen to fiction podcasts more than nonfiction podcasts. The styles of audio fiction I listen to vary quite a bit, but I tend to gravitate toward fiction podcasts that center around relationships or smaller storylines that are slice of life, or intimate tellings of events or themes, think a superhero show that focuses on how the superhero keeps friends when the friends feel small because they're saving the world every week. I also enjoy podcast audiobooks as well. Even with those pulls toward relationship based audio fiction, I'll generally try any fiction podcast once if I like the trailer or first episode or synopsis. LeVar Burton Reads. Fun fact---one of my Fiction stories almost made it onto this podcast. LeVar Burton, my forever parasocial husband, reads short stories. Enough said. The podcast ended years ago but still, you won't be disappointed. Forever Yours. Forever Yours, a love story that transcends time... Follow the written journey of a handsome and witty soldier and an aspiring baker, in the midst of the Korean War. Set in the Jim Crow south, the two share their captivating love story across oceans with weekly love letters. Together they learn that distance cannot erase the shared prejudices they face as African-Americans. Listen to Forever Yours, a new romantic fiction podcast brought to you by Well Writers Audio. Love and Luck. Love and Luck is a fictional radio play podcast, told via voicemails and set in present day Melbourne, Australia. A slice of life queer romance story with a touch of magic, it follows the relationship between two men, Jason and Kane, as their love grows both for each other and their community. Gay Pride and Prejudice. In this modern interpretation of the Jane Austen classic, Bennet, a 30-something, non-committal gay man struggles to find belonging when his chosen family suddenly begins coupling up and settling down. Margaritas & Donuts Josephine, a pediatrician, is pretty unlucky romantically. With a little coaxing from her best friend Katrina, Josephine starts a relationship with Malik, an ophthalmologist that works in the office across the hall from hers. Malik is exactly what Josephine needs, but she doesn't quite realize it...yet. Childish: The Podcast Musical. Dante, a college student in NYC, becomes an RA in order to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Childish Gambino. While he hopes this will be the next step toward becoming a famous rapper, his delusions of grandeur are shattered when he realizes his dweebish co-workers are hellbent on making his life miserable. DEM TIMES A trouble maker in high school, Samuel finds himself on a plane heading to Ghana; a different country, needless to say, a different life. His formative years have begun. These are 'DEM TIMES'. The show is in the broader sense, a serialised teen odyssey, set within the closed-off microcosm of Ghanaian boarding school life. At its core, this is a cultural migration; a fish-out-of-water story stemming from an outsider's identity crisis inside the Ghana educational ethos -- where the school day begins before sunrise and ends after 9pm, and only after students have finished their homework (assuming chores have been completed too). Fan Wars: The Empire Claps Back. Two passionate Star Wars fans on opposite sides of the Last Jedi debate argue via Skype after their favorite forum closes down. If you love Star Wars (or call yourself a proud member of any fandom), you'll love this romantic comedy told via conversations. Bonnie Screws Up Bonnie Martinez - a talented actress starring in a popular mystery web series called Special Cases. She's torn between the career plan her manager has designed and her desire for a life away from the cameras. And maybe a relationship with a regular guy like the cute bartender Bonnie has been stalking on social media for over three months, Duante Smith. All it takes is some liquid courage after another failed date with a Hollywood producer for Bonnie to screw up in a completely unplanned way: she breaks her Non-Disclosure Agreement for Special Cases. Bonnie is in a race to fix her mistake before it costs her everything. The Bright Sessions and the AM Files. The Classic of audio fiction. It's still great, to this day. Superheroes go to therapy and deal with slice of life drama as well as other non powered and supernatural happenings. ## Nonfiction podcasts. The nonfiction podcasts I listen to are rarely podcasts where people sit and talk to each other at a table, which makes up the bulk of podcasts today. I like audio storytelling. I like podcasts with a lot of production in them. I like podcasts that read print or the web out loud in any form. I don't find a lot of value in the popular talk show style podcasts unless there's a very particular theme surrounding the podcast, such as them reading a book chapter by chapter in part one of the episode and then discussing it in part two of the episode. The Guardian's Audio Long Reads. Narrated versions of their lengthy articles. This American Life. Narrated journalism that started it all, I think. Has intimate stories, zooms in on issues and creates stories out of them that have a beginning, middle, and an end. If Books Could Kill. Hilarious podcast where the hosts painstakingly read the books I don't want to read and then validate my feelings with their snark about the book or articles in question. They cover more topics now but the original tagline was, The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds. Reveal. One of the best audio narrative journalism podcasts to date. Does deep dive investigations into many things and deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. This is Love A show that centers relationships in all it's forms, and showcases their stories. Modern Love. Mainly sharing this for the earliest episodes, the better ones. The earlier episodes were some of the best adaptation of writing I've ever seen. I don't like their newer episodes so if you can find older episodes, do so. They are far better. The earlier episodes had actors reading some of the most powerful writing on relationships I've ever seen. The newer episodes try to be ear candy and focus less on reading actual words. Bletch. How to be a Girl. An intimate exploration of a mother learning to live with her Trans daughter and exploring gender. This is Actually Happening. What if you were trafficked into a cult...or were mauled by a grizzly bear...or were stabbed 27 times by a serial killer - what would you do? This is Actually Happening brings you extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told by the people who lived them. From a man who woke up in the morgue to a woman stranded in a Mexican desert fighting to survive, these stories will have you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what happens next. Embedded. A very good in-the-weeds series going deep on specific issues---from police departments to the military to political campaigns. NPR reporters embed themselves in institutions and communities for weeks or months, returning with intimate, complicated portraits that resist easy narratives. ## Audio Let's Plays. Before my list, here's another list of audio Let's Play podcasts Archive for the previous list but many of the links in this post are broken, but it's still worth exploring. Also, if you don't like video games but love tabletop games, listen to people playing tabletop games too I intentionally wrote about the below podcasts in the past tense, partially because I'm lazy and all podcasts end at some point. I also explain which ones provide audio description, describing what's happening for the listener. 1. RSS Sightless Scribbles, my podcast, showcased audio games and games with built in audio description. 2. Reignite RSS Reignite Covered all Mass Effect games. Provided audio description. 3. Retrograde Amnesia is more studying JRPG's but sometimes played them too. Sometimes, audio description was provided.) 4. RSS Hyrule Podcasters. The Legend of Zelda Audio Only Let’s Play Provided audio description for all the games they played. 5. Planescape: Torment - The Unofficial Audio Series largely focused on the 19999 game. A fully voiced re-telling of the game’s story with a modern take and narrative drive. 6. This is video games Provided audio description and read the screen. Played adult games. 7. RSS TroytlePowerPresents: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast. Played a lot of indie games. Provided audio description and read the screen. 8. RSS Daniel K's Let's Plays. Played a lot of handheld games. Provided audio description and read the screen most of the time. 9. No One can Know About this. Feed for No one can know about this. A heavily edited Let's Play podcast that focused a lot on Final Fantasy Games, with their own brand of audio description thrown in as well. 10. Gorilla's playthroughs. RSS for Gorilla's playthrough. Provides audio description for games and even describes the menus sometimes. Shockingly, my sighted friends loved the audio description touches in this podcast because it's absolutely meant for audio since it's made with blind listeners in mind. 11. Hello Hyrule: A Legend of Zelda Travelogue. Feed for Hello Hyrule: A Legend of Zelda Travelogue.Played through all the Zelda games and also provided audio description and reads off dialog. Very fun crew! 12. Sacred Realms: A Zelda Retrospective Podcast. Recorded in traditional Let's Play style where no audio description is provided but commentary abounds. Excellent sound quality. 13. Enchantment: Dragon Age Let's Play Podcast. Feed for Enchantment: Dragon Age Let's Play Podcast. Traditional Let's Play style without audio description but still very fun crew. They branched out to other games, but their back catalog focused primarily on Dragon Age. 14. RSS Play Along Podcast. Another traditional Let's Play style, but they focused a lot on indie games, which I loved! They'd sometimes provide audio description but mostly it was commentary and discussion. 15. Let's Listen. Provided audio description. Story-driven Let's Plays in an audio-only format! Let's Listen to removed the loading screens, gameplay, and boring bits of video games, so you can sit back and enjoy the story. 16. RSS Lokathor's Audio Only Let's Plays. Played all kinds of games. No audio description though, but still very fun! 17. Checkin' It: An Audio-Only Let's Play Podcast. Played a bunch of chess and chess style games. 18. Skeleton House - Video Game Let's Plays. Played a bunch of games with a lively crew! Sometimes provided audio description but not consistently.

I updated my PodRoll to include more fiction podcasts and podcast audiobooks. https://sightlessscribbles.com/podroll/ ##Podcast #Podcasts #Audiobooks #Audiobook

REDEMPTION by Madalyn Morgan, book 4 in Sisters of Wartime England @Stormbooks_co

Ena, drugged on the train, taking top secret components to Bletchley Park. Who knew what she was carrying? Who knew she was travelling on her own?

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Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚

Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚

Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚

Brand new #WIPLine today.

And it's no joke.

I've officially started on Broker, book 2: Fog of War by Derelict Presence.

This book is *so good*. I'm so glad I get to sit down with it!

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Audio up. Trust me. #booksky 💙📚 #darkromantasy 🪄 #romantasy 💛⚔️📚 #writesky #writingcommunity #audiobooks #newbooks

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The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: Part Two audiobook is on sale to Audible Plus members for £3.05. It’s 244 hours long. 244 hours! It includes the following unabridged novels:

Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great […]

Audiobook cover for Written on the Dark. Cloaked figure on horseback crosses a stone bridge on a dark foggy night with a partially obscured castle on the background.

Audiobook cover for I See You've Called in Dead. Title and authors in gold lettering against a dark blue background.

Audiobook cover for Snake-Eater is of the image of a roadrunner with a fanged snake in its beak against a background of pink gagging to orange fading to blue.

Audiobook cover for The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid shows a pea green sweatshirt with a yellow lightning bolt on it hanging from a clothesline by two clothespins against a blue sky

Favorite books of 2026 Q1
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney
Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
Physics for Cats by Tim Gault
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
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The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial The Scopes Trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtro...

And #audiobooks too! The Scopes Trial in 1925 set the stage for ongoing debates over the separation of Church and State in a democratic society—debates that continue to this day The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial @latheatreworks.bsky.social Booth 1530 #PLA2026 streaming.latw.org/the-great-te...

Lady Katherine Willoughby knows every one of Henry VIII's wives. She stands up for what she believes in... but such courage has consequences.

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The Feeding After the Feeding destroys civilization, Layla lives in one of the last bastions of humanity. When her father gets sick, she becomes a Crosser, scavenging for supplies between settlements in hopes of ...

Attention US audiophiles - The Feeding - my post-apocalyptic horror/thriller - is available on Chirp at $2.99 until the end of April.
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