Imprint identity
RP Audio is the larger audio publishing imprint for RP Media, with more than 500 titles produced and distributed across fiction, nonfiction, children’s listening, educational materials, restored editions, and story-world audio since 2002. Its catalog includes work for retail listeners, school and library audiences, families, students, and lifelong learners.
Primary audience: Retail listeners, school and library audiences, families, students, lifelong learners, and rights partners looking for audio editions and story-world listening.
What it publishes
Publishing names
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Formal professional byline
Formal and professional publishing name for nonfiction, technology, leadership, and practical books.
William R. Stanek is a formal professional byline used for nonfiction, technology, leadership, professional education, and practical publishing contexts.
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Nonfiction, professional, and visual work
Technology, nonfiction, leadership, education, travel, wellness, art, photography, and public biography.
William Stanek is the public publishing name for the nonfiction, professional, visual, travel, wellness, art, photography, and public-biography side of the larger creative record.
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Fiction and legacy works
Historical fiction, literary works, legacy editions, and the broader fiction canon.
Robert Stanek is the public fiction name connected to historical fiction, literary works, legacy editions, coming-of-age stories, and the broader fiction canon.
Explore Robert StanekChildren, classroom, and early YA
Children’s books, classroom-friendly reading, clean fantasy, early YA, and family reading.
R. Stanek is the publishing name for children’s books, classroom-friendly reading, clean fantasy, early YA, and family reading paths.
Explore R. StanekFantasy, science fiction, and thrillers
Fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, post-apocalyptic worlds, espionage, and darker speculative work.
W. R. Stanek is the publishing name for epic fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, post-apocalyptic worlds, espionage, and darker speculative work.
Explore W. R. StanekFeatured series
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W. R. Stanek
activeExtended definitive releases of the Ruin Mist fantasy saga.
Four larger releases that combine the eight-part Kingdoms and the Elves path into complete, uncut, extended reading experiences.
W. R. Stanek
activeThe Fourth Wind is rising.
Epic fantasy of prophecy, forbidden magic, kingdoms, elves, dragons, old power, divided peoples, and consequence.
R. Stanek
representative dataStories, early learning, character lessons, and classroom-friendly reading for young children.
A large children's and classroom-friendly series connected to life lessons, family, the natural world, early learning, schools, libraries, and homes.
R. Stanek
activeA living land. A forbidden vision. A bond freely chosen.
Clean fantasy adventure about living lands, creature bonds, hidden magic, friendship, and freedom versus control.
R. Stanek
activeThe public record tells what happened. The Second Record tells what mattered.
Children's mystery adventure about hidden history, secret records, travel, family, clues, and forgotten truths.
W. R. Stanek
activeA damaged operative. A family under threat. A hidden war over identity, memory, surveillance, and control.
Grounded espionage techno-thrillers about a former covert operative, family under threat, hidden systems, surveillance, and people turned into tools.
Featured books
Book metadata remains centralized in the William-side and Robert-side catalog files; imprint pages simply draw from those records.
Epic fantasy / mythic fantasy
LatestKingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches Book 1
A princess wants freedom. A village boy hides forbidden magic. An elven queen prepares for war. And the Fourth Wind is beginning to rise.
Epic fantasy / extended definitive edition
LatestRuin Mist Chronicles Book 1
The Fourth Wind is rising - and the first warnings were never meant to be forgotten.
Clean fantasy adventure / early YA fantasy
LatestA Doamanse Fantasy Adventure
Ray was sent into the living wetlands to become a man. He was not sent to find the wizard.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Second Record Adventures Book 1
A floating garden. An impossible record. A secret beneath the city.
Children's stories / early learning
A Bugville Critters Treasury
Instructive, entertaining stories from the Bugville Critters world.
Post-apocalyptic science fiction / dystopian science fiction
LatestAfter the Machines Book 1, Part I
The machines were supposed to have forgotten humanity. Cedes is about to learn that forgotten things can still be claimed.
Rights and licensing
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Explore the publishing family
RP Audio is one shelf in the larger RP Media / Reagent Press publishing family.