“For a good audiobook, the main thing is not the ability to “rumble sweetly in the lower register,” and not the ability to speak in different voices, but the ability to capture the listener’s attention,” Amir Rashidov. “A good actor always needs a director - a person who plans for the actor a corridor to follow. The narrator in audiobooks is a role. The role needs a concept, an idea. A director is needed to develop the concept. Audiobook performers need to cultivate their inner director,” - Dmitry Kreminsky. This book is a long-awaited event for the community of audiobook producers and lovers. The famous director of radio plays, Dmitry Kreminsky, in dialogues with reader Amir Rashidov, shares his unique experience as a director when creating audio books. Without what knowledge does it make sense to start reading books out loud? Why is the text not the main thing for the reader? Why can we listen to one artist’s reading for hours, but tune out another after two minutes? What techniques can a reader use to captivate listeners? Why do even professional actors sometimes fail at the microphone? The answers to these and other important questions are divided by topic and summarized in key theses on cultivating the “inner director.” The book will arouse interest not only among beginning enthusiastic performers, but also among professional artists, as well as the listening audience who wants to know how to create high-quality audio literature.