How does listening to your books compare to the reading experience?

Pauline Rowson talks to Soundings who have just released the audio book of Inspector Andy Horton crime novel, Death Surge, number ten in the DI Andy Horton crime series.




How does listening to your books compare to the reading experience?

I have to admit that I cannot listen to my books. I usually manage the first few words and that’s it. Why? Because I am thinking maybe I should have changed that word or sentence or that particular piece of dialogue. I am highly critical and once a book is published in whatever format I find it very hard to look at it again and even harder to listen to it despite the fact that the narrator has done a fantastic job.




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