Awhile back, I did a giveaway for some of the books I’ve written. To me, I was doing my teensy tiny part to help out with people staying home during lockdown.
I got a bunch of response to it… even after the giveaway part was over. One of the coolest parts is that I was invited to consider turning my stuff into audiobooks to be sold on Audible.com and iTunes.
Well, this past weekend I decided to take the leap… I took a deep breath, I put The Witch’s Daughter up for auditions for audiobook readers, and held that breath awhile.
The recordings started coming in… and I cannot tell you how wonderful and strange and awful it was to ‘hear’ Nessa for the first time. I teared up at the end of each recording (where Nessa reveals her mother is missing) even if the voice wasn’t the Nessa I had in mind.
I couldn’t be objective about this- so I reached out to some folks, both readers and non readers, and got feedback on who they’d listen to for the 6ish hours of reading the first book will take, who absolutely could NOT be Nessa, and why.
What I haven’t told any of the readers yet is that if they can pull off Cliche, I’ll probably end up doing all three books with the same reader.
It’s been exciting and terrifying and a lot of things in between… and if all goes the way I hope it will, soon I’ll be able to say that From the Journals of Nessa Ysbelle will be available however you like to listen to audiobooks.
And that’s pretty damn cool.
Curiouser and Curiouser 