Matty Dalrymple's Blog - Posts Tagged "audiobook"
Cloaks, Daggers, and Audiobooks
My next appearance will be on Saturday, May 2 from 1-2 at the Capital City Book Fair in Trenton, NJ--I'm the featured author at the Cloak and Dagger bookstore's booth. The book fair looks to be an event to warm the hearts of book lovers whatever genre you prefer!
I'm extraordinarily excited to announce that actress and voice talent Sarah Purdum has signed on to narrate the audiobook of THE SENSE OF DEATH!
The venture into audiobooks is one I never foresaw when I was writing THE SENSE OF DEATH, but with versions available in paperback and ebook formats, audio was the next logical channel*. It's a valuable writing lesson to consider not only how a passage will sound to a reader's virtual "ear," but also how it will sound to a listener's actual ear!
I'm also incorporating input from a beta read by my fabulous editor, Jen Blood--adding a bit of mayhem to keep things interesting and fleshing out a character who wasn't quite as fully realized as the others. (A beta read is one that focuses on structure, plot, and characters rather than detailed grammar or word choice.) Check out Jen's own suspense thrillers--highly recommended!
On Tuesday I'll be at the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Symposium in NYC--I'm especially looking forward to hearing Laura Lippman, author of one of my favorites, WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, interview Lois Duncan, author of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.
Happy haunted reading!
M.
*Next: translations! DIE RICHTUNG DES TODES ... LE SENS DE LA MORT : )
I'm extraordinarily excited to announce that actress and voice talent Sarah Purdum has signed on to narrate the audiobook of THE SENSE OF DEATH!
The venture into audiobooks is one I never foresaw when I was writing THE SENSE OF DEATH, but with versions available in paperback and ebook formats, audio was the next logical channel*. It's a valuable writing lesson to consider not only how a passage will sound to a reader's virtual "ear," but also how it will sound to a listener's actual ear!
I'm also incorporating input from a beta read by my fabulous editor, Jen Blood--adding a bit of mayhem to keep things interesting and fleshing out a character who wasn't quite as fully realized as the others. (A beta read is one that focuses on structure, plot, and characters rather than detailed grammar or word choice.) Check out Jen's own suspense thrillers--highly recommended!
On Tuesday I'll be at the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Symposium in NYC--I'm especially looking forward to hearing Laura Lippman, author of one of my favorites, WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, interview Lois Duncan, author of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.
Happy haunted reading!
M.
*Next: translations! DIE RICHTUNG DES TODES ... LE SENS DE LA MORT : )
"I just heard a great book ..."
During production of the audiobook of "The Sense of Death," I figured I better acquaint myself with audiobooks from a listener’s perspective so I signed up on Audible and started using my credits. One of the first books I listened to was Andy Weir’s "The Martian"—what a great book to start out with!
Andy started out self-publishing on Kindle to provide his friends with an alternative to reading the serialized story on his web site and almost accidentally found himself with an agent and a publisher. Andy is a programmer as well as an author, and at one point in a talk he gave at Google about the book, he referred to the reader as “the user” which I think presents a thought-provoking perspective on the author / reader relationship.
Andy’s very funny writing is supported by R. C. Bray’s equally funny narration. I’m glad I listened to the book rather than reading it because I would have been tempted to skip over some of the more technical sections that turned out to be integral to the story. It also made me appreciate the art of effectively-used profanity—maybe I should add more swearing to "The Sense of Reckoning"!
With the advent of technologies like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and with our ever more frantic schedules, I believe that audiobooks will play an increasingly significant role in how readers consume content. I’m starting to delve deeper into the audiobook world and would love to engage with any of you who are audiobook listeners to get your perspective--if you are interested in participating in such a discussion, please drop me a note from the About & Contact page of my web site and let me know!
Andy started out self-publishing on Kindle to provide his friends with an alternative to reading the serialized story on his web site and almost accidentally found himself with an agent and a publisher. Andy is a programmer as well as an author, and at one point in a talk he gave at Google about the book, he referred to the reader as “the user” which I think presents a thought-provoking perspective on the author / reader relationship.
Andy’s very funny writing is supported by R. C. Bray’s equally funny narration. I’m glad I listened to the book rather than reading it because I would have been tempted to skip over some of the more technical sections that turned out to be integral to the story. It also made me appreciate the art of effectively-used profanity—maybe I should add more swearing to "The Sense of Reckoning"!
With the advent of technologies like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and with our ever more frantic schedules, I believe that audiobooks will play an increasingly significant role in how readers consume content. I’m starting to delve deeper into the audiobook world and would love to engage with any of you who are audiobook listeners to get your perspective--if you are interested in participating in such a discussion, please drop me a note from the About & Contact page of my web site and let me know!
