{"id":208732,"date":"2025-01-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draft2digital.com\/blog\/?p=208732"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:13:41","slug":"d2d-2024-year-in-review-ep209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\/d2d-2024-year-in-review-ep209\/","title":{"rendered":"D2D 2024 Year In Review \/\/ EP209"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We look back at what D2D was up to with a Year in Review for 2024, a year with a heavily focused on migration and connecting Smashwords and Draft2Digital so we can make big changes in the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/50122feb-eeb7-485a-a344-af8009d6c5b9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"D2D 2024 Year In Review\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D2D 2024 Year In Review\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_AN_Kx0rlQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"episode-notes\">Episode Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After working in the audiobook industry from 1998 - 2022 as a narrator, director, producer, and serving on committees of both the Audiobook Publishers' Association and SAG-AFTRA, as well as publishing her own romantic comedies as Karen Grey, Karen White created a boutique audiobook marketing company called Home Cooked Books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/\/Draft2Digital is where you start your Indie Author Career\/\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for your path to self-publishing success? 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