Jacob Shymanski

But I think an important part of the quality of these books that has to be mentioned is that they're positive and cheerful.

They're intelligent and sweet, but they're just wholesome.

They're warm, which makes them an absolute breeze to listen to.

Fantastic audiobook editions too.

Today, I'm talking to Usma Jalaluddin.

This is Audiobook Cafe.

I'm Jacob Szymanski.

All of the titles I just mentioned are available on Sela in human narrated audio.

And of course, they're also on Audible.

We have a short sample of Detective Auntie.

Take a listen.

That was a sample of Detective Auntie by Usma Jalaluddin, narrated by Deepti Gupta.

The full audiobook is a little over 11 hours if you're interested.

Usma, thank you so much for making time.

Welcome to Audiobook Cafe.

I want to start with Detective Vanti because it's your most recent release.

And this is a good old fashioned murder mystery a la Agatha Christie, which is interesting because before all of your books were romantic comedies.

So I'm wondering why the change?

So after your first book, your publishers and your publicists gave you the advice to continue writing rom-coms.

Did they?