In today’s bonus episode, AudioFile’s Michele Cobb spoke with author Maia Kobabe and audiobook producer Nick Martorelli from Penguin Random House. It’s a special conversation about GENDER QUEER, Kobabe’s award-winning graphic memoir, and how they adapted it into a full cast audiobook production. GENDER QUEER is Kobabe’s very personal story about gender identity, and it makes for an excellent audiobook. Listen to hear more about Kobabe’s personal relationship with audiobooks, how e and Nick worked together to adapt the graphic memoir into a script, and what it was like for Kobabe to narrate eir own work.

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