MAKE NOISE: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling by Eric Nuzum (Hardcover; January 7, 2020) is the first book on the craft of audio storytelling from a true podcasting pioneer. A veteran of NPR and Audible, Nuzum has created and produced podcasts that routinely top the charts, appear in yearly “best of” lists, and win awards. Of the six billion podcast downloads each year, more than one billion of those are for the 130 podcasts Nuzum created, including the TED Radio Hour, Invisibilia, Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel, and The Butterfly Effect.
Bringing all the wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking that any individual or business needs to make a successful podcast, MAKE NOISE offers an analysis of the medium, examining its promise, its drawbacks, and how to bring it all together. Filled with a deep-yet-accessible dive into what works and why, it identifies core principles to help guide readers throughout the creative process. And then it gets into how-tos—how to develop character, story, voice; and how to conduct an effective interview, with tips from Terry Gross and story-building ideas from Ira Glass.
Much in the way that Robert McKee’s book Story has become a must-read for any aspiring screenwriter, MAKE NOISE is poised to become the foundational text for podcasting—the dog-eared definitive guide for anyone who has something to say.