Open Your Ears
Greetings Liz fans and others!
Here we are, week 2 of my first self published series release!
Both Love Garage and Coach Love are getting some nice, thoughtful reviews (and yeah, the trolls are out but I tossed them a few table scraps because I felt sorry for them in this cold weather).
But I'm shoving this in your face THIS week on behalf of those of us who adore the AUDIO experience.
That would be me.
I'll admit it.
I do a lot of standard poodle walking, house cleaning, driving around the Great Lakes State and because of that, I consume audio books as much if not more than print/ebooks. Here is a list of my recently favorite audio books:
1. The Goldfinch (narrated by David Pittu)
2. Mr. Mercedes (Narrated by Will Patton)
3. The Oryx & Crake Trilogy (multiple narrators including Campbell Scott & Bernadette Dunne)
4. The All-Girl Filling Station (narrated by the author Fannie Flagg)
5. Last Night in Twisted River (narrated by Arthur Morey)
6. The Robber Bride (narrated by Bernadette Dunne)
7. Sweet Tooth (narrated by Juliet Stevenson)
8. Wolf Hall (narrated by Simon Slater)
9. The Great Gatsby (narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal)
10. Flight Behavior (narrated by the author, Barbara Kingsolver)
To me, the audio experience is something different than the reading one but no less meaningful. And the key to a successful audio book? The narrator, which is why I named the narrators in the list above.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Indie Author (both with my new self published series AND my series and stand alones that are more "hybrid published" than anything I really stressed about this point. I wanted my books on audio. Bad.
Luckily, the first 3 books of the Stewart Realty series (Floor Time/Sweat Equity/Closing Costs) ARE on audio and are narrated by the very talented Traci Odom so I got to have the almost squee-worthy experience of HEARING my words READ to me.
When it came to The Love Brothers project, I knew 2 things about the potential audio books:
1. The narrator should be male
2. The narrator should understand what I meant when I said "soft Southern accent"
Quite by accident, I found the perfect Voice. When my cover artist Fiona Jayde was putting the trailer together she found Daniel Dorse, a voice actor willing to voice-over the trailer. He and got to talking, I listened to some of his projects and I hired him.
Here is that trailer which was featured in a USA Today post about "best book trailers!"
Here is the flip side of audio books: Not everyone will "love" your choice of narrator as much as you. I've already had at least one potential listener email me a little lecture about my "poor choice" (right before she proceeded to pimp 2 other narrators to me, so we know where THAT came from).
Daniel's voice is deep, low, gravelly at the right time and light at others. I think it's perfect. Eve though I fully realize my risk putting him "out there" as the voice of my series. Audio book listeners are in many ways even more picky and subjective than plain old readers.
But if you are an audio book aficionado like myself, I would highly encourage you to give Daniel Dorse's take on my family saga a shot. Click here to read a bit about how Daniel felt about bringing Antony, Kieran, Dominic, Aiden and their supporting cast of characters to life!
To that end, I'm including 2 samples (via the audible links) AND a 10-day contest for FIVE FREE DOWNLOADS of either Love Garage or Coach Love. (5 total free downloads).
Click here to listen to the "sample" of Love Garage!
Click here to listen to the "sample" of Coach Love!
Just click the "Listen to Audio Sample" right underneath the cover!
And now....allow me to give away a few of these!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Here we are, week 2 of my first self published series release!
Both Love Garage and Coach Love are getting some nice, thoughtful reviews (and yeah, the trolls are out but I tossed them a few table scraps because I felt sorry for them in this cold weather).
But I'm shoving this in your face THIS week on behalf of those of us who adore the AUDIO experience.
That would be me.
I'll admit it.
I do a lot of standard poodle walking, house cleaning, driving around the Great Lakes State and because of that, I consume audio books as much if not more than print/ebooks. Here is a list of my recently favorite audio books:
1. The Goldfinch (narrated by David Pittu)
2. Mr. Mercedes (Narrated by Will Patton)
3. The Oryx & Crake Trilogy (multiple narrators including Campbell Scott & Bernadette Dunne)
4. The All-Girl Filling Station (narrated by the author Fannie Flagg)
5. Last Night in Twisted River (narrated by Arthur Morey)
6. The Robber Bride (narrated by Bernadette Dunne)
7. Sweet Tooth (narrated by Juliet Stevenson)
8. Wolf Hall (narrated by Simon Slater)
9. The Great Gatsby (narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal)
10. Flight Behavior (narrated by the author, Barbara Kingsolver)
To me, the audio experience is something different than the reading one but no less meaningful. And the key to a successful audio book? The narrator, which is why I named the narrators in the list above.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Indie Author (both with my new self published series AND my series and stand alones that are more "hybrid published" than anything I really stressed about this point. I wanted my books on audio. Bad.
Luckily, the first 3 books of the Stewart Realty series (Floor Time/Sweat Equity/Closing Costs) ARE on audio and are narrated by the very talented Traci Odom so I got to have the almost squee-worthy experience of HEARING my words READ to me.
When it came to The Love Brothers project, I knew 2 things about the potential audio books:
1. The narrator should be male
2. The narrator should understand what I meant when I said "soft Southern accent"
Quite by accident, I found the perfect Voice. When my cover artist Fiona Jayde was putting the trailer together she found Daniel Dorse, a voice actor willing to voice-over the trailer. He and got to talking, I listened to some of his projects and I hired him.
Here is that trailer which was featured in a USA Today post about "best book trailers!"
Here is the flip side of audio books: Not everyone will "love" your choice of narrator as much as you. I've already had at least one potential listener email me a little lecture about my "poor choice" (right before she proceeded to pimp 2 other narrators to me, so we know where THAT came from).
Daniel's voice is deep, low, gravelly at the right time and light at others. I think it's perfect. Eve though I fully realize my risk putting him "out there" as the voice of my series. Audio book listeners are in many ways even more picky and subjective than plain old readers.
But if you are an audio book aficionado like myself, I would highly encourage you to give Daniel Dorse's take on my family saga a shot. Click here to read a bit about how Daniel felt about bringing Antony, Kieran, Dominic, Aiden and their supporting cast of characters to life!
To that end, I'm including 2 samples (via the audible links) AND a 10-day contest for FIVE FREE DOWNLOADS of either Love Garage or Coach Love. (5 total free downloads).
Click here to listen to the "sample" of Love Garage!
Click here to listen to the "sample" of Coach Love!
Just click the "Listen to Audio Sample" right underneath the cover!
And now....allow me to give away a few of these!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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