Are you searching for audiobooks with artistic elements? The following new works speak directly to creators:
Make Your Own Rules: Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age
With a title that immediately catches a creator’s attention, Make Your Own Rules: Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age by Andrew Huang is a bestselling music audiobook. Narrated by the YouTube sensation, the new release offers practical tips for finding opportunities, financial stability and enjoyment while pursuing artistic interests.
As a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live and no industry connections, Andrew Huang offers personal stories in Make Your Own Rules about navigating the digital age. Drawing on two decades as a music industry “misfit,” his artistic and business advice will resonate with those following creative and unconventional routes.
Beginning with auctioning his songwriting skills on eBay as a teenager, Andrew describes finding new ways to thrive in a music career during the last 20-plus years. His hard-won wisdom in this 7-hour, 33-minute audiobook offers hope to aspiring digital creatives who want to find success while remaining true to themselves.
The Lost Dresses of Italy
If you’re ready to travel back in time to a distant land, the destination in the audiobook The Lost Dresses of Italy by award-winning M. A. McLaughlin is Verona, 1947.
Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy focusing on three pristine Victorian dresses once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Tucked in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti, and Marianne’s skills are needed before they go on exhibit. Still grieving the loss of her husband, the trip is also a reason for Marianne to begin again while searching for answers on multiple levels.
Inspired by the real-life mysteries surrounding poet Christina Rossetti, The Lost Dresses is an English audiobook tale for readers with wanderlust as well as a special interest in Italian art and fashion. Hope Newhouse, Melanie Crawley and Edoardo Camponeschi narrate this new audiobook, which will keep your imagination engaged for 9 hours and 22 minutes.
Denison Avenue
Available for pre-order on libro.fm and scheduled for release on Feb. 16, 2024, Denison Avenue by Christina Wong is short-listed for 2024 Canada Reads and long-listed for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library Association.
The 9-hour, 43-minute fictional story about gentrification, aging in place, grief and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders includes an accompanying PDF of illustrations by Daniel Innes. Through ink artwork and moving storytelling, Denison Avenue follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who lives in Toronto’s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market. Collecting bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay, Cho Sum goes on long walks around the city. As she meets new friends, this elder learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood facing complex issues.
A thoughtful exploration of loss, aging, gentrification and the barriers that Chinese Canadian seniors experience in big cities, Denison Avenue integrates visual art, fiction and the endangered Toisan dialect in this memorable book. The audiobook edition also includes behind-the-scenes production notes from the author and the illustrator, detailing their inspirations for the story and their personal connections to the community and urban landscape of Toronto’s Chinatown and Kensington Market.