Come discover your Harrisonburg/Rockingham Writing Community.
Whether you’re scribbling your first poem or plotting your tenth novel, this is your chance to meet and network with other authors.
If you’ve been looking for that boost, that community, that connection—you won’t find a better place than the RWG.
Our speaker In July will be Paul Heitsch.**
Audie nominee and Earphones award-winner Paul Heitsch has been a professional VO since 2011. To date, he has produced over 400 audiobooks, including Pulitzer- and Edgar-award-winning titles. His performance of Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet was chosen by Slate Magazine as one of the 10 best audiobooks of 2022. Reviewers praise his narrations as authentic, natural, versatile, and committed to the text. He has performed best-selling audiobooks for Harper Audio, Tantor, Audible Studios, Blackstone Audio, Dreamscape, Macmillan, Podium, Aethon, and Brilliance, as well as many independent authors and publishers. In addition to his narration work, Paul is an accomplished composer, pianist, recording engineer, and teacher. A native of Chicago, he now lives in in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.
Paul will speak on a wide range of subjects related to audio book narration including:
Audiobooks: Opportunities and Caveats
Are audiobooks right for you? Why/why not.
Numbers – costs, revenues, time.
What to expect when you’re expecting an audiobook.
Care and feeding of your new collaborator.
Distribution options.
It all happens starting at 6pm on Wednesday, August 6th at the Massanutten Regional Library.
While we meet at the library, the RWG is neither endorsed by, nor affiliated, with the library.
