July 5th, 2023

Read Out Loud

I’m pretty excited that the audiobook of These Days Are Numbered is now available for preorder–there’s a deal where you get two free audiobooks along with mine if you preorder, which is cool But it’s also just–a stranger is going to read my book aloud and we will get to listen to it. It is 10 hours and 21 minutes long, which I did not predict–somehow I thought it would be shorter? I did vet the narrator but I gave the note that she should sound less authoritative in the reading–my natural speaking style is very upspeaking and of course this book is just…my voice? So…I wonder what it will wind up sounding like. I wonder a lot how particular sentences and phrases will be inflected. I mean…I’m just so curious. It’s also another avenue for people who are NOT me to experience the book, because that’s the main point of an audiobook, of course. People who wouldn’t necessarily sit down and read it might be thrilled to listen to it in the car or on a walk or while doing chores. So that’s a potential new readership/listenership, which is cool. I wonder if they will like it. It’s all just very interesting.

Anyway, there’s also the launch, coming up in a couple weeks, July 18, 6-8 at Queen Books, which is gonna be fab and I’m super-excited about that as well. So…see you there?? Hope so!!