Fake Dating & Full-Cast Audiobooks: Creating Know Your Newlywed with Heather Taylor and Hillary N...

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In today’s episode, we have not only one guest but two! I am chatting with HEATHER TAYLOR and HILLARY NUSSBAUM. Together they wrote Know Your Newlywed, a full-cast audio production starring Mary Mouser of Cobra Kai and Tyler Posey of Teen Wolf. Know Your Newlywed is set between Boston and Chicago, and the female main character is an anthrozoologist—how cool is that? Heather writes and directs TV, film, and audio projects about complicated family relationships. She strives to destigmatize mental illness, disabilities, and poverty in her work. Hillary is a writer, director, and producer with a background in television development. 


Episode Highlights:

• Writing Exclusively for Audio – The challenges of storytelling without visual descriptions.
• Creating Connection Through Sound – How to portray emotions & chemistry using audio.
• Sound Environments – Using sound design to transport listeners between settings.
• Casting & Voice Acting – The fascinating process of selecting voice actors and how they create authentic relationships despite recording separately.
• Collaboration in Audiobook Production
• Book Flight: Rom-Coms with the Fake Dating trope.

Connect with Heather Taylor and Hillary Nussbaum:

• Instagram
• Heather (  / heatherataylor  )
• Hillary (  / hbnuss  )
• Heather’s Website (https://www.heatherataylor.com/?fbcli...)
• Purchase Know Your Newlywed (https://amzn.to/4gzvirW)

Books and authors mentioned in the episode:

• Ann Patchett books (https://amzn.to/3WPHm0T)
• L.M. Montgomery books (https://amzn.to/42RQ2rA)
• The Shennara Series (https://amzn.to/4hnL3TX) by Terry Brooks
• The Lord of the Rings (https://amzn.to/4hqURMW) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Kitchen Science
• Shoeless Joe (https://amzn.to/4jRIn2A) by W.P. Kinsella
• The Elements of Style (https://amzn.to/4gRsK8N) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• Population: 485 - Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (https://amzn.to/4hv9MWh)

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