If you’re an audiobook person, I hope none of this deters you from preordering - I promise that Chrissy and the rest of the Macmillan Audio team are going to make it sound incredible! You can order it from Audible or the indie bookstore-friendly Libro.FM and Kobo. Chrissy also told me to go easy on caffeine, so I’m skipping my morning Diet Coke this week which is a truly noble sacrifice, especially since she gets another cup of coffee every time we take a break so I have a lot of caffeine envy rn. So far, so good and I’m drinking all the Throat Coat tea. The major looming stress, as all parents know, is whether my children will bring home a cold that destroys my voice. Some kind of author bucket list item? Also I have a podcast and people sort of know my voice now? Several early readers told me they could hear me reading to them in their heads as they read, which I guess is a good thing? Anyway! I’m doing it! It is hard but satisfying! I really do love thinking about people listening to this thing I made. Having just thought all that through, it’s now hard to remember why this time I was suddenly very excited to record the audiobook myself.
But I also know that recording audio of any kind is highly skilled work-saying words, out loud, correctly, for so many hours! It is very hard!- and it took so much pressure off to know the manuscript was safe in the hands of the talented Julie McKay, who did such a beautiful job with it. I now a little bit wish I had, because there are several very personal chapters in that book and it feels slightly odd to think about those words coming out of someone else’s mouth. So when they asked me about narrating the audiobook months before the pub date, I didn’t even really consider it.
I can’t remember why exactly but I think if I’m being honest that I didn’t feel ready to be the voice (or face) of a book and I didn’t start feeling ready to do that until after that book came out, for better or worse. I have been, alternatively, very excited and very nervous to record my own audiobook.
#Goreader pro professional#
1Īudio book recording studio! Also where I make the podcast, please note the very professional microphone on random upturned box set-up. As it turns out, my book is more Eloise than Goodnight Moon in terms of the reading stamina required. Basically, I thought that because my bedtime story game is strong, I’d have this in the bag.
Also I could have included about a thousand fewer scientific studies and it would have been a badly reported book but way easier to read. Which just seems obvious now I write it.īut Day 1 was intense and I deeply regret using the words “subsequent” and “prevalence” as often as I did in this book because wow, I am just never going to say those right on the first try. I figured out at lunch today that my voice sounds better if I dance around to Lizzo for a few minutes. And then I just read and read, for six hours a day until we’re done! We do take bathroom/lunch/stretch breaks. She stops me every time I stumble over a word, and also makes sure I’m pronouncing everyone’s names right and does a thousand other vital things. I’m doing this from my home office, with my fantastic director Chrissy monitoring everything on Zoom. As you read this, I will be gearing up for Day 2 of Audiobook Recording Week.
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