Friday, November 11, 2011

Listen up, Readers!

One of the fun things about having a new book come out is that you learn about new media. Recently I received this email invitation:

"Join our collection so that students and teachers can hear from you when reading your books. You don't need to have a difficult name to participate—just a fun message to help readers get a sense of who you are."

To hear how your favorite fellow authors give their messages their own personal touch, see the entire collection of over 1,300 name pronunciations here.


I did record my own name to be posted soon. But first I took a few minutes to listen to the recordings of some of the Hamline faculty. Did you know that one is named after a game show host and when another one leaves a phone message people sometimes think that two girls have called?

Now I invite any of you out there with books to record your name, too. Or when you truly deserve a break from writing, check these recordings out.

TeachingBooks is an online database of multimedia resources about books and authors and is used in over 26,000 schools, reaching 13+ million students - pretty cool and a wonderful resource.

7 comments:

  1. Link's busted. Here's the right one:

    http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi

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  2. "Busted" is such an evocative word--like it's really broken, all stove up, and it ain't ever going to work again.

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  3. Claire, this is like eating potato chips. I keep thinking, they are so short, just one more...

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  4. Thanks, Peter. I just tried to fix it - but alas. Cheryl, I hope you posted your own.

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  5. Book promotion requires all kinds of new media tricks, doesn't it? I now have a website with a blog--something I never thought I'd do. I am officially a "Goodreads Author," although I'm not quite sure what to do with that yet. I have a Facebook "fan page." This weekend I'll get to watch a film company make a book trailer for A Voice for Kanzas, which I'll eventually have to upload to YouTube. Most of my fellow 2012 debut authors (the Apocalypsies) are much younger and more tech-savvy than I. I often have to ask for the "old person" version of the directions for uploading to the group blog, etc. Wow.

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  6. Good for you, Debra. Jumping in, that's what it is all about.

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  7. Congratulations on AVFK, Debra!!! Can't wait to read it! Cheers!

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