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30 December 2010

The Joy of Audiobooks

As an avid reader, I really enjoy audiobooks. With audiobooks, I can still "read" while driving, exercising, staring off into space. (I'm a writer.) It helps me keep up with my ever-growing and overwhelming TBR pile. (I'm trying to learn to speed read as well.) The one drawback of audiobooks is, well, the audio. The speaker's voice. Every once in a while, I'll pick up an audiobook that is absolutely ruined by the reader. Like in everyday life, some people's voices are....for lack of a better phrase....annoying. So when I found out that the FABULOUS Lorelei King <http://www.loreleiking.com> was the reader for First Grave on the Right, I went all fan-girly and squealed. Only a little, but still. I was so excited, I wrote to her agent to tell her how much I loved her work. (She also reads for authors like Janet Evanovich and Patricia Briggs, just to name a few.) She wrote me back herself (!!!) to thank me, and a friendship was born. (At least in my head. 😊 She is absolutely the coolest of the cool. She is gorgeous and talented and has the perfect voice for my MC, Charley Davidson. Behind the scenes are people like producer Laura Wilson and designer Anne Gardner among others. And the folks at St. Martin's Press/MacMillan Audio have been kind enough to send me a sample of her work for the website. To hear an excerpt of First Grave on the Right read by Lorelei, click on the audio link on the home page. And let me know your thoughts!!! I'm just so thrilled! ~D~

NEVER BE AFRAID TO DART AROUND IN PUBLIC,HUMMING THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE THEME SONG.