The Classic Tales Podcasts and Audiobooks

This week marks the release of the The Classic Tales Premium Podcast .   This means we get THREE episodes a week, when you count the regular Classic Tales Podcast . BJ Harrison will be releasing two episodes each week of the Premium Podcast as well as the Friday edition of the Classic Tales Podcast we all love and look forward to each week. BJ was really intimidated about the prospect of committing to produce three podcasts a week, but it looks like it will work out just fine.   Just make sure to subscribe and tell all your friends to do so too! How is he managing to produce three podcasts a week, you ask?   He’s figured out a way to " punch record " which basically erases the editing process, so he can get a great recording by using a little more care.  Lucky us! The first work BJ is producing for the Classic Tales Premium Podcast is The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs .   This is the second installment of Burroughs’ famo...

This week, we start on the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.   Published in 1781, many critics thought Through the Looking Glass was more mathematical and cerebral than Wonderland.   Thankfully, the story had passed down to us through the generations, so we can make our own judgments on the playfulness and darkness in the story. The story opens six months after Alice’s first adventure, on a cold and snowy November day.   Alice is playing with Dinah’s kittens and pondering, like only she can, on what the other side of her mirror might be like.   She gets up on the mantelpiece and finds that she can easily step through the mirror and find out.   On the other parlor, she reads, with the aid of the mirror, a poem called "The Jabberwocky."   As you listen to BJ read this poem, enjoy the level of darkness he puts into his narration of the poem.   Did you know that his favorite version of this is from a Muppets episode ?   He’s got...

The Arabian Nights originated in the oral folk tales originating from India, Persia (Iran), Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey among others. The original manuscript is now lost, consisting of a ninth-century text translated into Persian called Hazar Afsanah (A Thousand Tales). By the end of the thirteenth century, the principal tales were compiled and written down. The book’s Arabic title means Thousand and One Nights . Over the years, the collections anonymous editors added new tales to justify the title. The French scholar Antoine Galland was the man instrumental in bringing the tales to Western Culture, releasing his collection of Arabian Tales in 1704. The text used for the Classic Tales Podcast releases of the Arabian Nights tales are an English translation by H.W. Dulken, which is based on Galland’s sweeping translation. There are several other remarkable translations to date, perhaps the most notable being Sir Richard Burton’s translation (1885-1888) . The Burton tra...

I'd like to make my novel into an audiobook. What do I do? You've finally done it. After countless late nights, dozens of revisions, and narrow-eyed scrutiny from those you trust, your opus is now in print. Congratulations! You may be getting some positive traction already. Now you'd like to take advantage of  the blossoming audiobook market. But where do you start? How do you make an audiobook? How much does it cost? How do you get it sold at Audible? How do audiobooks show up at the iTunes Music Store? What other ways are there to market my audiobook?  Where do I start? Hire an Award-Winning Audiobook Narrator and Producer – Hire B.J. Harrison There are many reasons that B.J. Harrison is the perfect choice in audiobook narration talent. Here are a few: ·        Solid background in Classic Literature – brings out every ounce of drama without being over the top ·        Reputat...