I about about to produce my first Podiobook and I am looking for any advice. What do you like or not like about the format? What should I do or not do?

I have never created a podcast and only recently began playing around with Audacity, but I do listen to quite a few podcasts. As a listener nothing annoys me more than contrasting volume.
I actually had to stop listening to a podcast novel because the authors reading of the story was so much softer than the music that seperated chapters. The music, of course, was kicked off with an ear-splitting cymbal crash. I'd have to try and rip the ear-buds out of my head before suffering permenant damage to my hearing.
So, I guess my suggestion is to be sure and run the podcast through some volume equalizer. Good Luck and Congrats.

I have just started listening to podiobooks and the best thing I can suggest is to SLOW down. I found several podiobooks were actually worse then the actual story because the reader (author) rushed through the reading. The next problem frequently noted was a near monotone presentation. Finally ... it seems that 10-15 min. chapters are popular ... but they are very annoying on my end. Make them at least 20 mins., preferably 30+ mins. each.

Great suggestions Kristjan. I do some mentoring over at the Podibooks.com community website and "slow down" and "vary your delivery" are two of my constant points for prospective podcast authors.

Eric, I'm not sure if you have signed up over at the podiobooks community site, but please consider it: http://community.podiobooks.com

There is a pretty strong mentorship group there (even if you decide not to use Podiobooks.com).

CN Networks Levelator is the perfect tool to stop this from happening. I use it on the Project: Shadow Informant and will on the podiobooks too.

I was wondering about chapter length. In Liquid Sky, the chapters are about 30 page each so they should be in that range, but I will have to be careful with Shine Like Thunder.

I am signed up over there, I was just curious to get some listener feedback.