Launch Day for Teddy Quillfeather
The Boisjoly universe expands today as Anty’s cousin Teddy Quillfeather solves her first medley of manor house mysteries in Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall. The theft of an immensely valuable, immensely ugly necklace is only the beginning of the intrigues and idiosyncrasies of a country weekend at Hardy Hall where Teddy’s mother has sent her […]
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May 26, 2024 05:20PM
Is there an audio version in the near future?
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Yes! Although I suppose it depends a bit on one's definitions of 'near' and 'future' and 'is'.The current informal but nevertheless very likely plan is that production will begin on an audio version of Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall when the second Teddy Quillfeather Mystery — Frauds On Favourite — is released. The objective is to ensure there's enough support and time to maintain a reliable release schedule after that.
Teddy Quillfeather's adventures are written in the third person, giving us an interesting field of choice. The narrator should probably be a female voice, but then, why? It's not Teddy's voice.
My guess is that most readers/listeners will be indifferent, but it would certainly be interesting to hear from those who have a view.
I guess there are as many definitions of "near" and "future" as there are readers. Mine is any time in the next "whatever", the corgis definition is "if it is food, right now, and no further correspondence will be entered into".As a listener I am mostly indifferent to the gender, as long as the accent, pronunciations are not wildly off piste. I have likes and dislikes of certain narrators, as I am sure most listeners don
So I am off to purchase the first Teddy, with the certain knowledge that I am in for a good time.
After all, you haven't let me down yet.
I knew I would love this book from the start but, when I found that a certain relative whom we have already met in an Anty book was to 'appear' in it, I was even more excited. The book is enjoyable, laugh-out-loud funny and devilishly clever to the point that I read slowly to savor each line. Only about a quarter remaining because of that reason and I don't want it to end. When it comes to a narrator, women have never been my favorite for some reason, and Tim Bruce has set the bar high. But I am willing to give anyone a try. The important thing is that the narrator understands Teddy.
Thank you Amy, it’s tremendously motivating to lift my head from the blank page and see a comment like yours.You may have noticed that the events of Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall take place slightly less than a year before those of The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning, when we ‘first’ meet Anty and Teddy’s mutual Aunty. I’m very glad to see her again, too, and enjoy her eccentricities and the peculiar possibilities she brings, and so in the next Teddy Quillfeather she has her own, custom-fitted, pivotal subplot.
Now I’m starting to think that a male narrator might better demarcate between Teddy and the tale.
