The audiobook edition of A Season of Whispers is now available at Amazon, on Audible, and at Kobo.
Last summer I had the new-to-me pleasure of listening through audition files of potential narrators in which candidates read a few minutes of the text.
The audition I kept returning to was that of Darrin and Kristy Johnson, who took a clever approach to the gig. A Season of Whispers is divided into four acts, two told from a man’s perspective and two told from the perspective of Minerva Grosvenor, the heroine. Darrin narrated the two male acts and Kristy the two Minerva acts, which underscored the switches in POV for the listener.
The pair also threw some voice acting into the mix, with Darrin performing the dialogue of men and Kristy the women regardless of which act they were narrating. As the author I was a little worried how the book’s dialogue would translate to audio because not every line of speech is differentiated by “he said” or “she said” and so on, but by performing the dialogue as if the book was a play, they made the dialogue very easy to follow along.
I knew I’d found my narrators as soon as I heard the Johnsons’ audition. They made the audiobook into something unique, not just a voice reading the text.
So glad Aurelia Leo and I can now share it with listeners.
