Romance author Julia Whelan fills us in on Audiobrary, her new audio-first platform for stories that don't fit traditional publishing models.
Author and prolific audiobook narrator Julia Whelan has a gift for all of her listeners and readers: She’s launching, about the second-chance seduction and true intimacy between a rich widow and a gigolo descended from Giacomo Casanova himself.
When everything shut down in March of 2020, there was a serious question about, “Is this going to be the end of audio?” Because no one’s commuting anymore, and everyone’s stuck at home. There was, I think, an understanding the success of audiobooks was totally dependent on multitasking, and that people were only listening because that’s how they were getting their reading in—they were able to do it on the train, or in the car—and the opposite happened.
For me, Audiobrary, purely on the business side, is structuring contracts and audio production and audio profits in a way that I feel is fair for authors and for narrators. It’s my attempt to address these problems. Creatively, I think there are many projects that maybe fall into some kind of liminal space between a book and a podcast, or an audio series of some kind, that aren’t necessarily served by the existing distribution channels.
But there will be certain editions, or certain expanded versions, that will be exclusive to Audiobrary. trying to message to people that if you purchase directly through us, where we’re not having to cut in Audible, the difference, for instance, an author that we partner with, is going to be five or six times greater of every copy sold than if it’s purchased through Audible; and then the narrators will be getting a royalty on top of this.
. There’s a turn here, and this is where with Alessandro there was so much territory of, how are people perceiving, do they even perceive—the same way we used to take all of our Marilyn Monroes or our bombshell stars of a certain period but to say, “Just stand there and look pretty, be my fantasy of you, and I don’t want to know who you really are.
But this is why I would not have traditionally published this book, because it’s setting me up into a lane I’m not going further into. This is not a thing I’m gonna keep doing. I was actually veering, I was gonna step out of romance; my next thing did not have a central love story, so this, to me—the book-within-a-book aspect, the audio-first aspect—it’s giving me the ability to break down the structure of what I am as a writer and just let the book speak for itself and be out there on its own.
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