Earlier this year, our in-house publishing imprint, Spotify Audiobooks, put out an open call for independent authors to submit their short-form stories. That initiative has since been formalized as Spotify Audiobook Selects, and the program's first cohort of 16 audiobooks is now available to listeners.
This program is a key part of our overall mission to uplift new voices, giving more creators the opportunity to live off their art. By producing and distributing these titles, we're connecting talented independent authors with listeners around the world.
With Spotify Audiobook Selects, we get to champion a hugely diverse range of authors and narrators, take chances on bold ideas, and bring these stories to millions of listeners who might never have discovered them otherwise, said Colleen Prendergast, Spotify's Associate Director of Licensing and Publishing, all in a short, bingeable format we think Spotify listeners will love exploring.
Meet the first Spotify Audiobook Selects cohort From comedic space adventures to romantic small-town meet-cutes, the first collection features a variety of short audiobooks across the romance, mystery/thriller, and sci-fi/fantasy genres. Here's what a couple of the authors from this first cohort had to say about the experience.
It's very cool to be a part of something new. I've never published an audiobook before, so having this team really championing it has been absolutely amazing, said Stephanie Y. Yang, author of Strak's Bad Day. I feel really fortunate that I've had the chance to work with such an amazing team that is making my audiobook the best version that it could possibly be.
Let's just say I screamed [when I got the offer], added JC Savoy, author of Radio Romance. I've been an indie author for over 30 books, but getting accepted into Spotify's program was validation that my writing still connects with people. I'm still smiling, I have to be honest!
Full list of titles (alphabetical by author last name):
Falling for Finley by Sophie Beckett
No Time for Doubt by Regan Black
Final Descent by Audrey J. Cole
A Wild English Rose by Sasha Cottman
People, Too, Are Wild by Carla E. Dash
The Cafe of Inescapable Human Destiny by Elizabeth Hrib
Less Than Perfect by S.M. Levine
Those Lights at Night by Adrianna Nine
On the Job Training by Andrew C. Piazza
Forget Me Not by Tina Radcliffe
Murder at the Magic Academy by Alicia Rades
Radio Romance by JC Savoy
Shadow Dance by Spencer Sekulin
A Short Future History of Whales by Jenny Williams
Strak's Bad Day by Stephanie Y. Yang
Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast by Kelsea Yu
The next chapter is yours to write Our next submission window is now open, and this time, the theme is swoon-worthy tropes. Authors are encouraged to submit novelette-length stories (10,000-40,000 words) that creatively explore romance tropes like friends to lovers, grumpy/sunshine, and only one bed. Full details and the submission link are available here.
This is a global program, and any author with an English-language short-form story who controls their own audio rights can submit. If your story is selected, Spotify will publish your audiobook-paying an advance and royalties, managing all aspects of production, and distributing to major audiobook retailers.
The Spotify Audiobook Selects program is just one of the ways we're working to write the next chapter for audio storytelling, and we can't wait to hear what you create.
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