Recording the book for Audible

Done it!  I've never recorded an entire book before and it involved spending four days in a freezing cold studio space reading the book and remembering to stay close to the microphone and keeping up the energy in my voice.  I now have tremendous respect for professional actors who spend hours alone in recording studios reading through lengthy books. Oh, but it was an enjoyable process. Knowing the text, and the characters, so well, I was keen to bring the book to life my own way. It's always a challenge doing accents - especially when you have two or more people in conversation, all of whom speak with different accents - but I did it!

The book took four days to record. It was a stop/start process. The studio engineer might stop me because I'd tapped something, breathed too loudly or my tummy rumbled. And my director would say: Stop, you need to change the emphasis. Or: This is a very important line, say it more slowly.  What a learning curve but fascinating and very rewarding.  We all punched the air with delight when I reached the magical words: The End!

So, there's quite a bit of editing and tidying up to do but the Audible version of Prince George & Master Frederick will be joining the printed book and Kindle version by the time we reach publication on 30th January.  How amazing it is to think that my debut novel will be published in one month's time.