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How to create an Audiobook - Part 2 reading

6/16/2014

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Now on to my favorite part of the job, reading the manuscript! I read the entire book before I do any of my recording. This way I know what character motivations are and this helps me create the character voices. For example in my first book, The Lake Quilt Mystery, one of the characters used a fake accent in the beginning of the book. Things like this are helpful to know before I start recording.

As part of the reading process I create character voices and figure out how many different voices I need to have. In The Hot Mess I had 46 different characters (yes I counted) to create. Now to be fair this does include the narrator and all the characters who just had one line, like the gardener who found a body and said "Dios Mio!"

One more thing I have to do before I start the recording process is to make sure that I know how to pronounce all the words. Before I started this job I had no idea how many words that I know the meaning of, that I have no clue how to say. Words like autumnal, lasciviously, and obeisance. Another challenge is if the words are in another language. In Learning How to Swim, the chapter titles and a few scattered words were in Gaelic. In this case the author of the book, Annie Cosby, helped me out and sent an MP3 of someone saying all the chapter titles in Gaelic correctly. All I had to do was listen and copy what they said.

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    I love books!  I love reading books!  I love reading them aloud so others can hear the characters I imagine  when I read.

    I am a professionally trained voice talent, librarian and certified teacher.  I read books for a living, and I'd love to read for you.


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