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Oct 12, 2026
CaseyHOST
... for 2026.
CaseyHOST
He won the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2026, and that recognizes excellence in horror literature, and he won an Audie Award f- for horror in 2026, awarded for excellence in audiobook production.
CaseyHOST
I haven't, I haven't done the audio of this.
CaseyHOST
That'd be interesting, so.
speaker_1HOST
Let's look at number fifteen on the list, Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang.
speaker_1HOST
It has a four-point-four score and was a twenty twenty-six Audio Award finalist in both narration and nonfiction.
speaker_2HOST
A very successful audiobook.
speaker_1HOST
Very.
speaker_4HOST
He's basically doing a one-man play.
speaker_0HOST
He won multiple Audies and two Grammys for this because he treats children's literature with the rigorous vocal mechanics of Shakespearean farce.
speaker_4HOST
So you have Fry, the warm, ironic storyteller, and Dale, the virtuosic slapstick character actor, and both of them are so deeply ingrained in the culture now that they are basically valid folklore.
speaker_0HOST
They really are.
Tim GrayHOST
We film it in a studio in England.
Tim GrayHOST
And this audio drama, by the way, won Best Audio Drama in all categories in the Audio Awards in 2018.
Tim GrayHOST
So that was a remarkable award to win and beat out Audible and the biggest publishers who were doing audio dramas, This was the best audio drama for 2018, quite an award.
Tim GrayHOST
And Paul, you get to work with these actors and actresses, and you get to see the story come alive.
speaker_0HOST
It's part coming-of-age story, part classic portal fantasy, and eventually it crosses over into dark horror.
speaker_1HOST
Seth Numrich actually won the 2023 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator for this specific performance, and his technical mastery is all about navigating tone.
speaker_1HOST
He manages to keep Charlie's internal monologue genuinely young and earnest without ever crossing into that grating, cartoonish teen angst that adult narrators often fall into.
speaker_0HOST
That's a fine line to walk.
Jenna LamiaGUEST
Like audio.
Jenelle RileyHOST
Like, okay, two Audie Awards, and being named Female Narrator of the Year-
Jenna LamiaGUEST
Yeah
Jenelle RileyHOST
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Jenna LamiaGUEST
Yeah.
Jenelle RileyHOST
Um, so was there sort of a moment where you felt like you had kind of achieved some notoriety in this field?
Jenna LamiaGUEST
There was, only because, um, it, I didn't know that the Audies, the Audie Awards-
Jenelle RileyHOST
Yeah
speaker_0HOST
So we are looking at a really comprehensive snapshot of the modern audiobook landscape courtesy of this incredibly detailed People magazine report by Rachel Raposa.
speaker_1HOST
Right, the one breaking down the Audie Awards.
speaker_0HOST
Yes, the 31st Annual Audie Awards, which just happened recently, right? March 2nd, 2026.
speaker_0HOST
And Raposa breaks down everything: the gala, the massive list of winners, the upcoming trends.
speaker_0HOST
It literally shows us how we went from, you know, those clinky cassette tapes you used to get for family road trips.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
You know, that benefits us all.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
But it did make me think about something that I've been hearing more and more from career narrators because there's this complaint that comes up whenever the Audis happen or a huge celebrity cast is announced and it's basically like cool, but what about us? And I think sometimes that complaint gets dismissed as jealousy.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
And sure, I mean, there is probably like a little jealousy sometimes.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
Would I want to be a part of Dracula? Absolutely.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
And I don't think anybody is sitting in an office somewhere going, like, how do we make audiobook narrators less visible? It's just another little shift in where the control over visibility lives.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
And like I said, then you have awards.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
The Audis are our industry's big night.
Brenda Scott WlazloHOST
And I love the Audis.
Kate McKinnonGUEST
so much, you too.
Kate McKinnonGUEST
Whoopi and I, we met at the Audis, the audio book awards.
Kate McKinnonGUEST
You were there, you gave an amazing speech about what audio books meant to you.
Kate McKinnonGUEST
And
Dan HollowayHOST
And while we're on the subject of audiobooks and all things audio, the shortlist for the UK or the British Audio Awards, otherwise known as the Speakeys, has just been announced.
Dan HollowayHOST
The Speakeys is the UK equivalent of the Audiobook Association of America, or the US version anyway, which is known as the Audis.
Dan HollowayHOST
And it has 18 categories.
Dan HollowayHOST
And like the Audis, it is open to self-published books, which always makes it something that I make sure to scroll through.
Dan HollowayHOST
And congratulations are in order to Sasha Kotman.
Dan HollowayHOST
whose audiobook A Wild English Rose has been shortlisted in the romance category.
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