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Neil Gaiman is using ACX to curate his own label of audiobooks. He selects books he loves, encourages rightsholders to claim and post the titles in ACX, and uses the ACX marketplace to negotiate his royalty-share production deals. He personally selects auditions to submit for rightsholder approval and adds at least one unique elements to every audiobook with by recording custom introductions. Finally, he conveys his passion for the book and the performance in social media, blogs, and on the Audible.com site under the banner of "Neil Gaiman Presents," or "NGP."
As an award-winning author and an Audie-award winning narrator, Neil understands that "in an ideal world you should be able to listen to every book you love being read by someone who's perfect for it. Getting involved in ACX, and curating my own label within it, is my way of trying to get to that ideal world."
Neil is building his inaugural list of authors now, and will be announcing them and title releases soon.
Just to recap, Neil is using ACX to curate his own label of audiobooks. He selects books he loves, encourages rightsholders to claim and post the titles in ACX, and uses the ACX marketplace to negotiate his royalty-share production deals. He personally selects auditions to submit for rightsholder approval and adds at least one unique elements to every audiobook with by recording custom introductions. Finally, he conveys his passion for the book and the performance in social media, blogs, and on the Audible.com site under the banner of "Neil Gaiman Presents," or "NGP."
Even though NGP is brand new, Neil himself has narrated more than twenty-five (25) audiobooks, including his own works The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, Stardust, Coraline, and Telling Tales. He has also narrated an introduction to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber.
Thirty-three (33) of Neil's novels and short stories are available as audiobooks. In addition to the titles mentioned above, his Audible bestsellers include Anansi Boys and American Gods. The Tenth Anniversary edition of American Gods will be released on June 21, 2011 by HarperAudio; not only will the audiobook be Neil's "preferred text," it will also feature Nicole Quinn, who won the speaking role in a nationwide contest.
Neil's extensive screenwriting and film credits include "The Doctor's Wife" episode of Doctor Who, which aired on the BBC network in May, and the film MirrorMask, which was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie. He is currently co-producing a 3D film version of the Chinese epic The Monkey King.
NGP hasn't won anything yet, but we're certainly striving for excellence with every title chosen, produced, and promoted by Neil Gaiman, using ACX tools and under the label "Neil Gaiman Presents".
Speaking of Neil, here are just a few highlights from his list of awards -- impressive!
Audie Award Winners:
2011 -- Stories (Neil edited), in the category of "Short Stories," produced by HarperAudio
2009 -- The Graveyard Book (Neil wrote and narrated), for two categories, "Audiobook of the Year" and "Best Children's Title 8-12," produced by HarperAudio.
Other Awards (highlights):
World Fantasy Award for Best short Fiction in 1991 for the Sandman issue, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Neil's novel, American Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2002, the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2002, the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2002, and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel 2001. It is among the most-honored works of fiction of the past decade.
Coraline won the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2003, the Nebula Award for Best Novella 2003, the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book 2003, and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers 2003.
Anansi Boys won him his second Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2006 (his first was for the illustrated version of Stardust in 1999.) Anansi Boys also won the British and Locus Fantasy Awards for Best Novel.
In January 2009, Neil won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book; in May, the book garnered two Audie Awards (mentioned above); in August it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and in 2010 he also won the Carnegie Medal in Literarature for The Graveyard Book.
Neil's story, "An Invocation of Incuriosity," published in Songs of the Dying Earth, won the 2010 Locus Award for Best Short Story.
