An audiobook narrator can receive a finished manuscript containing every word that will eventually reach the listener and still discover that something important is missing. A character’s unusual surname may have no obvious pronunciation. A fantasy novel may introduce cities and creatures that exist nowhere outside the author’s imagination. A seemingly minor character might later […]

Turning a book into an audiobook introduces a creative decision that does not exist on the printed page: who should become the voice of the story? For some authors, the obvious answer is to step behind the microphone themselves. They know every sentence, understand the intentions behind the words and may already have an audience […]