Hey First name / Bookworm,
It's officially been three months since starting the BAMTP site + newsletter. 🤯 For those who've been here since day one, thank you so much for your continued support! If you're new around here, welcome to the BAMTP community.
Speaking of, have you ever wanted to write? I am going to be opening up the blog to volunteer guest writers, so if you have a great idea for an article, or want to see your writing in a future newsletter, send me a pitch here!
Get the popcorn.🍿 If you've been on Booktok scrolling this week, you probably saw at least one video on the “Verba” debacle. Quick TL;DR: A bunch of thirst trap guys + an author decided they were going to launch a new audiobook subscription app for Romance readers. Ok, this sounds fine, right? But they had no website, no social, no market research, no business plan, no waitlist, no funding, and most egregious of all, no involvement from the actual community they were going to be selling to. Do you see the pattern here? As someone who's worked with startups + launched products + brands all over the world for over a decade…this is not how you do it. And people were understandably mad. Less than 24 hours later, Verba was shuttered.
So I thought I'd share a list this week of some of my favorite audiobook narrators on TikTok you can follow instead. Get the list below. Plus, I've shared some upcoming bookish events I hope to see some of you at this month!
