About Us
REAL VOICES. REAL STORIES.
Publishing Powerful First-Person Narratives From Cultural Icons.
LISTENIN is a full-service creative publishing house dedicated to producing and releasing powerful, first-person books from people of note. We partner with actors, musicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, and cultural figures who have stories worth telling.
We prioritize the audiobook experience, narrated by the authors themselves, as the cornerstone of our work. Each title is also available in print, but the spoken-word format is where our mission comes alive. Real voices. Real stories. Told directly by the people who lived them.
From full memoirs to deep dives into defining periods, LISTENIN provides an end-to-end solution including ghostwriting, editorial, production, publishing, and global distribution. We operate with an author-first model that features low recoupable costs and industry-leading royalty terms. This ensures our storytellers keep more control, more profits, and more ownership of their narrative.
Founded by filmmaker and producer Jaren Hayman, LISTENIN is built on over a decade of experience in documentary storytelling. Jaren has interviewed and shaped the life stories of hundreds of people across cultures, industries, and generations, bringing depth, empathy, and structure to deeply personal narratives. That same instinct for honest, human storytelling is at the heart of every project we take on.