I've had some *great* narrators: #WilWheaton, @6c22a432, #AmberBenson, #BronsonPinchot, and more.
I record my audiobooks with #SkyboatMedia, a brilliant studio near my place in LA. Back in August, I spent a week in their recording book - "The Tardis" - doing something I'd never tried before: I recorded a whole audiobook, with directorial supervision: #TheInternetCon:
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When it was done, the director - audiobook legend #GabrielleDeCuir - sat me down and said, "Look, I've never said this to an author before, but I think *you* should read *The Lost Cause*. I don't direct anyone anymore except Wil Wheaton and #LeVarBurton, but I'd direct *you* on this.."
I was immensely flattered - and very nervous. Reading *The Internet Con* was one thing - the book is built around the speeches I've been giving for 20 years and I knew I could sell those lines.
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But *The Lost Cause* is a *novel*, with a whole cast of characters. Could I do it?
Reader, I did it. I just listened to the proofs last week and:
It.
Came.
Out.
*Great*.
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*The Lost Cause* goes on sale on November 14th, and I'll be selling this audiobook I made everywhere audiobooks are sold - *except* for the stores that require DRM, nonconsensually shackling readers and writers to their platforms. So you'll be able to get it on #libroFM, downpour.com, even #GooglePlay - but not Audible, #AppleBooks, or Audiobooks.com.
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@b92dcc07 your reading of You All Meet In A Tavern at your Google yak a few years back is the BEST reading of that scene, it conveys the weird cool future being depicted *perfectly*
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