Grammar Girl here, I'm in Yon Fog and I am so excited because I'm here today with David

H. Lawrence, the 17th, an actor and an audiobook narrator and coach.

And that's why he is here with us today, because he has a new program called Narrate Your

Own Book, and when he approached me about it, I immediately said,

yes, absolutely, I want to do it, and I think a lot of my listeners will want to do it too.

So David, welcome and thank you for being here today.

Thank you so much. I've been such a fan for such a long time. I can't get through my week

without listening to the episode, so I'm so happy to be here.

Oh, you're amazing.

Thank you.

Well, you know, the timing was so fortuitous

because on my hard drive, I had the manuscript for a public domain Hardy Boys book because you know

Nancy Drew isn't in the public domain yet so I had the Hardy Boys because I have been wanting to narrate an audio book but I wasn't

sure how to get started, I was feeling a little intimidated, then you approached me about this

amazing program so why don't you tell the listeners a little

bit more about it? So I've been doing audio book narration since the late 80s when I used to live in

Washington DC and did work for the Library of Congress.

And all through that time, Audible was born and then ACX was born and I started not only doing books on ACX as one of their first audible approved producers,

but also training others on how to do it.

And it was mostly actors and voice talent, but every so often, every so often, an author would sneak into the class

and then reveal him or herself like midway through, oh I'm not an actor, I'm a writer, and I usually would be like,

it's too late, you're an actor now.

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