Who’s Honoring Stephen Now? The Audio Publishers Association!
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Finalists for the Audies have just been announced, and I Am America (And So Can You!) has been recognized in several categories. From Publishers Weekly:
Finalists for Audie Awards Announced
by Kevin Howell — Publishers Weekly, 2/5/2008The Audio Publishers Association (APA) just announced the finalists for the 2007 Audie Awards that honors audiobook excellence in 30 categories.
Inspired By … The Bible Experience: Old Testament (Zondervan) was the audio production with the most nominations, gathering four in the categories of multi-voiced recording, inspirational/spiritual, achievement in production and package design. Last year, Zondervan’s Inspired By … The Bible Experience: New Testament won an Audies for inspirational/spiritual and as Best Audiobook of the Year.
Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!) (Simon & Schuster Audio) had the next-highest number of nominations, in three categories: humor, achievement in abridgement and multi-voiced recording.
Our friends over at Hachette Audio tell us that “Finalists for Audiobook of the Year, which recognizes the audiobook with the greatest impact on the audio publishing industry, will be announced next month.” Their e-mail had more details on the nominees:
And the Finalists Are…
APA ANNOUNCES THE AUDIES® FINALISTS IN 29 CATEGORIES
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) will host The Audies® awards for excellence in audiobooks on May 30, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The winners will be announced at a gala celebration held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. As the only awards program in the United States devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment, The Audies® gala brings together performers, authors, producers, publishers and media to celebrate the best of the 2007 audiobook publishing year.
Achievement in Abridgement
I Am America (And So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert, narrated by Stephen Colbert with Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack and Jon Stewart, published by Hachette Audio The Race, by Richard North Patterson, narrated by Michael Boatman, published by Macmillan Audio Reclaiming History, by Vincent Bugliosi, narrated by Edward Herrmann, abridged by Jesse Boggs, published by Simon & Schuster Audio The Reagan Diaries Abridged Selections, by Ronald Reagan, narrated by Eric Conger, published by HarperAudio The Terror, by Dan Simmons, narrated by Simon Vance, published by Hachette Audio Humor
Don’t Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings, by Tyler Perry, narrated by Tyler Perry, published by Penguin Audio I Am America (And So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert, narrated by Stephen Colbert with Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack and Jon Stewart, published by Hachette Audio Our Dumb World, by The Onion, published by Hachette Audio Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, narrated by Johnny Heller, published by Recorded Books The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set, by David Sedaris, narrated by David Sedaris with Amy Sedaris and Ann Magnuson, published by Hachette Audio . . .
Multi-Voiced Performance
Dune, by Frank Herbert, narrated by Scott Brick, Simon Vance and a full cast, published by Macmillan Audio I Am America (And So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert, narrated by Stephen Colbert with Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack and Jon Stewart, published by Hachette Audio Inspired By … The Bible Experience: Old Testament, narrated by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker and many more, published by Zondervan The Word of Promise™ New Testament Audio Bible, narrated by a full cast including Jim Caviezel, Louis Gossett, Jr., Richard Dreyfuss, Marisa Tomei, Stacy Keach, Ernie Hudson, Terance Stamp, John Heard, John Schneider, Chris McDonald, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Luke Perry, published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Hollowville: A Ghost Story, by Mary Jane Hansen, music composed by Will Severin, narrated by Bruce Dern, published by NYS Theatre Institute
Congratulations to everyone involved in crafting this fabulous audiobook and to our friends at Hachette Audio!
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February 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I am waiting to check out Stephen’s audiobook from my local library and I have been in the queue for TWO MONTHS… I’m currently 18 out of 33 requests (and there are 3 copies!).
I would be annoyed and impatient — but I am enjoying the fact that so many folks in Nashville want to hear it.
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February 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Woo whoo! Congratulations to Stephen and everyone involved with putting the audiobook together (I believe Paul Dinello had a big hand in the audiobook production, according to the credits at the end of the last CD at least.). It is, truly, commuting therapy after very, very bad days at work. It’ll be killer to wait until May to find out who wins, though. Thanks for the update, Ms. I. I was wondering when the nominees would be announced.
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February 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Since this falls under the tag of “Who’s Honoring Stephen Now?” I want to mention that the February Mad magazine fold-in honors Stephen Colbert. It’s a very clever play on Bush vs Colbert (“joker who thankfully can’t run for president in 2008″), and references truthiness and other it-getter concepts. If someone has a scanner and can scan it, both unfolded and folded, I would bet that the fine folks at NFZ would appreciate it! I unfortunately don’t have a scanner.
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February 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Stephen’s gotta love that he’s going up against two versions of the Bible.
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February 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
his BOOK has been on the NYTimes BS list for almost 4 months
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