Friday, March 2, 2012

Narrating an audiobook is scary business

Longtime audiobook listeners will no doubt have noticed that many are narrated by professional actors.  It's often better that way, because an actor can better capture the drama of a good mystery, or make the difference between a dull history book and a fascinating one.  Turns out that authors also have trouble when they read their own audiobook.  Check out this BBC article:

"Moran says she had to change her posture and voice, to cope with being watched by her publishers and a sound engineer.  "I thought if I look embarrassed, they'll be embarrassed and we'll get caught in a terrible spiral - a vortex of embarrassment - where we all might go, 'Ah, I can't stand it, I'm English.'"

Click here for the rest of the article.

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