My agent called me on Tuesday to let me know that the audio book rights to ALL THINGS Wayson Harris have sold. The publisher asked for the rights to books one-through-seven; and upon learning that an eighth book was in the works, bought those rights as well.
I will give you the when and who details as I am allowed; but for now, let me say that the work will be involve performance as well as narration with multiple readers and some sound effects.
As the Sad Sam's crowd knows, I adore audio books!
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Squee! That's great. I can't wait to listen.
wow that is amazing, I too love audio books. Congratulations on this achievement, i've always wondered how the publishers decide to make novels into audio books
I think it has a lot to do with the projected sales of the book--that would be the same with hardbacks. If they think they can sell tens of thousands of books in hardback, they generally come out with the hardback first.
Thats really good news! but...
Alas, I have no patience for audio books :( Having anyone read something to me is nearly painful
These are performance audio.
I do hope they find the proper voice for Freeman. That would make or break the audio book for me.
They seem to put a lot of effort into finding a good cast.
I drive so far to work that audio books are pretty necessary now. I have listened to almost the entire David Weber, Harrington series and I have to say it brought more life to the characters. With audio books you hear the inflection, the accents hinting at the characters ancestry, not to mention the emotion at the important times during the books. There is always the relief of created names for the story being pronounced properly according the authors wishes too, that always bothered me. If an author creates a name, there is usually no way to determine just how he/she intended it to be pronounced. Audio books have been a wonderful relief to me sitting in traffic.
Exactly!
I think your books and style of writing will lend itself well to the audio format. I'm currently reading Tragedy and Hope, which would be (for me anyway) too academic and abstract for the audio medium. Your stories have a good flow to them, a nice mixture of action, conversation and internal dialogue. All in all, a nice audio recipe; just add sound effects! And if you could slip the sound folks an extra $100 to sneak in some subliminal messages so all your "audio listeners" would become tremendously successful - we'd be much obliged! (and able to afford the audio books)
Do you remember the Kevin Nealon character on Saturday Night Live--Mr. Subliminal? I could add him saying "Buy copies for all your friends." "Send money to the author." "Buy U.S. Savings Bonds."
I will record all of your books for a reasonable sum. You have your choice of voices, such as Stuffy English Lord or Pirate. Think about it.
The audio rights now belong to GraphicAudio, but I very much appreciate the offer.
Mr Subliminal was hilarious! As long as we are broaching the subject of psychology, I have a question that I wanted to ask you for some time. I've recently taken an interest in psychology and Zen and have noticed people as they are going through a “waking up” process. Unfortunately, it usually starts with a trauma that shakes their core beliefs. When they question these beliefs, such as religion, political affiliation, nationalism and other labels that they have identified and described themselves as in the past, they realize that they aren't who they thought they were. Their self identity is gone. While this could be an epiphany leading to growth and independence, it can also end in tragedy. A friend of mine studying psychology suggested that this realisation (that up until this point they have been nothing but a clone) can easily lead to depression and even end in suicide. Is this the idea behind the “death reflex” of your clones?
Good question, and it's causing me to question core information in my book. While I think it is fair to say that a certain level of depression surrounds the discovery (Harris handled it by getting drunk, Thomer and Lee took drugs.), the death reflex was purely created as a safety precaution to prevent a clone uprising.
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