Spoken Label

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Spoken Label is an long time ongoing Podcast Series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in Northwest England (UK) and beyond.

Formed in 2015 and run/edited by Andy N, author of ‘Return to Kemptown’ and ‘The End of Summer', it is always open to submissions from interested artists and parties and has a archive of over 500 episodes.

Please read the following before applying:

1) I am more interested in Poets, Experimental Musicians and Fiction Writers. People writing self-help books, Autobiographies / Life stories, Entrepreneurship, Erotica (Whether full or as somebody has said to me in an approach recently who I won't name - it's not full-on erotica book - just covers things in a fun and spicey way), Religious fiction and non-fiction and fiction related material will draw an automatic rejection from me with no further correspondence entered into.

2) I am also not interested in anybody to help me out with production/promotion/art. I have an excellent team in place to assist with this if I require this feature.

3) I have also begun to see an alarming number of people make enquiries to Spoken Label and it is apparent that their cover letter is entirely A.I. written (Chat GPT for example). I do check these letters for the simple reason that if your letter is entirely A.I. written, it asks the question if you cannot be bothered to at least attempt to write a covering letter with some kind of human touch, what the book will be like and will draw an automatic rejection also with no further correspondence entered into. .

4) A good tip, if you write to me wanting to come onto this show, is to please dazzle me with your cover letter - a simple, hi look at my website and put me on your show is not going to impress anybody nor is a letter which you are sending out to dozens of other Podcasts - it is easily spottable.

5) Spoken Label is aimed at the United Kingdom market, I will occasionally speak to readers further afield into Europe, but this is occasionally. It is very rare I have people on from further afield that than. Nothing personal, but that is my market (and I have a good, always increasing amount of regular followers / listeners).

Spoken Label as well as the link below is also available on networks such as Amazon, iTunes, Spotify and about 16 or 17 others if you want to look at any of the other networks and advise listening to at least a few shows in our archive to get a feel or the show before getting in touch. As of typing, there are over five hundred episodes - the latest few give clues to how the Podcast is run nowadays.