Interview with Julia Whelan

Libro.fm Podcast

On today's episode we chat with author and narrator Julia Whelan. She is an Audie award winning narrator who has narrated over 500 books and also authored multiple books of her own. We discuss a wide range of topics including her new book Thank You For Listening (on sale 8/2/22), the audiobook industry, how narration works, what AI means to the industry and more!

About this month's guest: Whelan is one of the top narrators recording today. She was named Audible’s Narrator of the Year in 2014 and is a Grammy-nominated audiobook director. She has acquired multiple Audies and Society of Voice Arts Awards, including for the performance of her own novel, My Oxford Year. She has won dozens of Earphone Awards, The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator of 2019, and was presented with Audiofile Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Golden Voice Award in 2020.

Photo by Kei Moreno via/ HarperCollins Publishers

She can be found on Instagram @JustJuliaWhelan, Twitter @JustJuliaWhelan, and TikTok @JustJuliaWhelan.

Julia's books:

• Thank You for Listening
• My Oxford Year

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Audiobooks mentioned in this episode:

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn