Rootstock Publishing Releases First Audiobook, Mountain Spells
Montpelier, Vt.—Rootstock Publishing is pleased to announce the release of its first audiobook, produced in partnership with The Audiobook Experience in Shelburne, Vermont, and distributed globally via Findaway Voices.
Mountain Spells: Poems, the award-winning debut full-length collection by poet and musician Toussaint St. Negritude of Newark, Vermont, was a natural first choice.
“Toussaint narrates his poems in this audiobook, and it’s so powerful to hear his words in his own voice,” said Publisher Samantha Kolber. “Now more than ever we need to listen to the lived experiences of our Black and minority artists.”
"Everything I evoke from the mountains, the stars, and the consequent human experience, infuses my poetry,” said Toussaint St. Negritude. “I also love bringing these poems into live performance, summoning the spirit of each word expressed. I’m so grateful that this audiobook further allows so many more listeners to also hear the spirit of these poems.”
“We’ve been creating audiobooks for Vermont authors and publishers for over ten years, and it’s wonderful to collaborate with Rootstock Publishing,” said Owner and Executive Producer Mary Catherine Jones. “We enjoyed working with Toussaint because his poetry has such a rhythm, such musicality to each piece. To be able to capture that and share it with audiences far beyond Vermont is magical,” she added.
The audiobook of Mountain Spells (ISBN: 9781578692057) is available for purchase wherever audiobooks are sold, such as Spotify, Libro.fm, and Audible, to name a few retailers. It is also available for library downloads.
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Rootstock Publishing is a curated hybrid and traditional publishing house collaborating with authors—the rootstock of creative content. Rootstock’s books have won multiple awards, including, among others, the Eric Hoffer Award, the IPPY, Foreword INDIES, the IBPA Ben Franklin Award, Literary Titan, and IPNE Award. Founded in 2017 in Montpelier, Vermont, Rootstock has published more than sixty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s books by authors from all over the globe.
The Audiobook Experience is a boutique audiobook production company in Shelburne, Vermont providing a custom recording experience for authors. Learn more at theaudiobookexperience.com.