![]() I have no problem with Edison speaking as long as you don’t mind him sounding like Scooby-Doo. I just got to go in and do my thing and it was very smooth sailing.Īre you relieved that I didn’t throw in a couple of lines in the dog’s voice? Do you know I’m planning on doing that in the next book? How will you prepare? It’s my favorite genre to do and the writing was so clear that it was a real joy. The accents were minimal and the thriller genre is in my wheelhouse. Not at all.Īnyway, what was the toughest part about reading The World Beneath? Was it all those random accents the crazy author put in? Or something else? Not that I spend way too much time on Facebook myself. Speaking of Facebook, I have some questions posted by Facebook friends at the bottom. After the kids go to bed, I’m often back in the studio doing some extra work or finishing up what I didn’t get done during the day. By the time I’m done recording, the kids are usually getting home from school, so then it’s homework, dance class, and all the other good stuff. Then I send that 2 hours of audio off to my proofer for her to listen to and check for errors. I set a goal of 2 finished hours of recording per day. Then at around 10am, I buckle down and start recording. I’m in the studio around 9am doing office stuff: Returning emails, invoicing, goofing around on Facebook. What does your average recording day look like? Had I known I could charge them for it, I would have. Now, not so much as they are pre-teen and teen. And I would go into their classrooms and library to read, too. It’s been fun to see how we’ve both grown in our respective careers over the years.ĭo you read aloud a lot in your spare time, or do your kids have to pay for bedtime stories? 150 titles later and I’m still narrating a large portion of Jeremy’s stuff. They were my first truly professional titles. These were both very successful on and when Audible bought the rights to some of his follow-up books, he asked Audible that I narrate them. Jeremy hired me first to do a Podiobook of his novel, KRONOS, and then another one titled BENEATH. There was next to no money involved, but it got me the attention of a couple of authors, most notably Jeremy Robinson and Gregg Olsen. Microphone (PLEASE do not go and find them). I started about 6 years ago by doing some free short story collections for on a $5 karaoke Jeffrey, how did you come to be doing audiobooks? I was curious to find out how he did it, and I thought you might be, too, so I invited him here to find out! Here’s a sample of him reading the first five minutes of The World Beneath, so you can hear what I mean: I wasn’t surprised when I did more research on him and discovered that he’s won awards for his work-from the Voicey Award for Best New Voice to the Halo Award for Best Sci-Fi Audiobook. His performing style is understated and powerful his voice the kind you could listen to all day. Jeffrey Kafer’s voice got inside my head instantly. When I decided to bring Joe Tesla’s first novel, The World Beneath, out as an audiobook, I listened to a lot of audition tapes (a great way for an author to spend a day).
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