You love to read. Could you narrate?
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
975. This week, I learned all about audiobook narration from David H. Lawrence XVII, who is launching a new program called "Narrate Your Own Book." If you've ever dreamed of being a narrator, this episode is for you! And if you're a self-published author who has always wanted to narrate your own audiobook (or feel like you should), this episode is especially for you. We talk about many of the fears that might be holding you back and why they don't matter as much as you probably imagine.
If you want to learn even more, you can watch three free videos (about 40 minutes each) where David goes even more into why and how you should narrate your own audiobook.
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References for the Aging segment
van Boxtel, W, Lawyer, L. Sentence comprehension in ageing and Alzheimer's disease. Lang Linguist Compass. 2021;e12430.
Payne, B. R., Gao, X., Noh, S. R., Anderson, C. J., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. (2012). The effects of print exposure on sentence processing and memory in older adults: Evidence for efficiency and reserve. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 19(1–2), 122–149.
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| 0:00.0 | Grammar Girl here, I'm in Yon Fog and I am so excited because I'm here today with David |
| 0:11.1 | H. Lawrence, the 17th, an actor and an audiobook narrator and coach. |
| 0:16.6 | And that's why he is here with us today, because he has a new program called Narrate Your |
| 0:21.6 | Own Book, and when he approached me about it, I immediately said, |
| 0:26.1 | yes, absolutely, I want to do it, and I think a lot of my listeners will want to do it too. |
| 0:31.5 | So David, welcome and thank you for being here today. |
| 0:34.4 | Thank you so much. I've been such a fan for such a long time. I can't get through my week |
| 0:39.9 | without listening to the episode, so I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, you're amazing. |
| 0:45.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, you know, the timing was so fortuitous |
| 0:48.9 | because on my hard drive, I had the manuscript for a public domain Hardy Boys book because you know |
| 0:58.0 | 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 |
| 1:07.3 | sure how to get started, I was feeling a little intimidated, then you approached me about this |
| 1:10.9 | amazing program so why don't you tell the listeners a little |
| 1:14.0 | bit more about it? So I've been doing audio book narration since the late 80s when I used to live in |
| 1:20.5 | Washington DC and did work for the Library of Congress. |
| 1:24.4 | 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, |
| 1:36.4 | but also training others on how to do it. |
| 1:38.4 | And it was mostly actors and voice talent, but every so often, every so often, an author would sneak into the class |
| 1:46.7 | 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, |
| 1:54.0 | it's too late, you're an actor now. |
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