2. Reading From the Ears Up: Reader/Listener Appeal of the Audio Book International Popular Culture Association Conference July 22, 2015 Kaite Mediatore Stover Director of Readers’ Services The Kansas City Public Library

3.  Appeal terms should resonate with readers, even if they have not used those exact terms  Print appeal categories:  Storyline  Pace  Tone  Writing style  Illustration  NoveList narrative appeal vocabulary  Describes the voice quality, tone, and artistic delivery of the narrator  Also identifies aspects of the performance, i.e. performed by a full cast, in front of a live audience, etc.

4. The Graveyard Book  Written and narrated by Neil Gaiman Other titles:  We Are Water by Wally Lamb  Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver  Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou

5. Death Waits at Sundown  Written by L. Ron Hubbard  Narrated by a full cast Other titles:  Enders Game Alive by Orson Scott Card  8 by Dustin Lance Black  Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur C. Doyle

6. Other titles:  Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Narrated by Simon Vance  Ain’t She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Narrated by Kate Fleming  Phryne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood. Narrated by Stephanie Daniel  Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Narrated by Daniel Weyman Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  Written by J.K. Rowling  Narrated by Jim Dale

7. The Help  Written by Katherine Stockett  Narrated by Octavia Spencer, Bahni Turpin, Cassandra Campbell, and Jenna Lamia Other titles:  The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell. Narrated by Nicholas Tecofsky  Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Narrated by the author  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Narrated by Grover Gardner

8.  Refers to the style of narration NOT the response evoked in the listener. Detached narratorEmotionally connected narrator

9. Kaitestover.pbworks.com  Conference Presentations  International Popular Culture Conference