R is for Readings

 

A couple of years back I was working with a friend, Greg McQueen, on the possibility of turning Voices into an audio book. I did some readings using a crap microphone and Greg told me I had a strong enough voice to do the lot. I invested a coupla hundred notes in equipment and I did it. Took me three bloody weeks but I did it.

That project never got off the ground, but I still use that equipment occasionally for readings and short audioblogs.

One of the problems I always felt was my Yorkshire accent. It’s not strong but it is noticeable. When, however, it came to The Filey Connection, it was a positive asset.

(I’ve always wondered, what is a negative asset?)

You can judge for yourself by listening to two readings from the book, embedded below.

Here’s the first.

 

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And if you enjoyed that, here’s the second.

 

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Reading aloud has some advantages for the writer, too. It lets him hear how the prose sounds, rather than simply reading it. He gets to judge the flow of words, spots repetitions that he may have missed when reading.

Audio is fun to fool around with, and it gives the writer a break from the constant tap of the keyboard, and if it improves the finished product, then much the better for the reader, too.

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The Filey Connection, first of the Sanford 3rd Age Club Mysteries, from Crooked {Cat} Books is available for the Kindle from Amazon UK and Amazon Worldwide and in all other formats from Smashwords