So we’re walking out of the bank, after giving the title company all of our money, and the dude from the title company, who had come to pick the check up, says, “The two days of Texas winter are coming.”
He is right.
Speaking of dark and broody, folks on Facebook fan page are discussing options for a narrator for Hugh’s audio book. If you want to join in the recommendation fun, post link to narrators here, in the comments. Hugh’s reader needs to have range, because Hugh goes from polite and charming to cold killer in half a second. He needs to sound like an adult man in his thirties or forties. Don’t laugh. Some narrators sound too young or too old. Being able to do a female voice would be a big plus.
Since the book is split between male and female point of view, do you like when there are two narrators, a man and a woman, doing separate parts, or would you prefer a single narrator throughout? Inquiring public wants to know.
Update: Guys, Richard Armitage would be prohibitively expensive. We’re looking for audio narrator.
Holter Graham is the narrator you want. His female voices are great, he does subtly efficient accents, he does emotion, and he gives important characters distinct voices. (You can check him out in Patricia Briggs’ Alpha & Omega series audiobooks. Excuse me, I think I need to re-listen…)
Nick Podehl who does the narration for Patrick Rothfuss’s audiobooks would be excellent. If you do the two narrator the female narrator could be Lorelei King. That would be my audiobook epic matchup for this century. My second choice for male narrator would be Joe Manganiello. He would have to have a female to narrate the female parts to work with him.
Where you are splitting the point of view between a male and female character, I would prefer two narrators. Sorry, very few narrators are convincing when they change from male to female (or vice versa!).
I love Holter Graham, but his voice will always make me think of Charles from Patricia Briggs’ Alpha and Omega series. Lorelei King will forever be Stephanie Plum to me and Renee Raudman is Kate. I think that’s an issue for any really popular series.
I don’t mind the switching voices or having a single reader, as long as they read well and have a voice that isn’t grating. I like YA books, but I can’t listen to the audio versions of very many because the narrators tend to have a fake-child voice. It’s really annoying.
Luke Daniels: he does the iron druid series and is brilliant and can also read as female or a dog, or a female dog. How’s that for range?!
James Marsters aka The actor who played Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he does audio books as well, he did Jim Butchers Dresden Files and is excellent and has the range you need i think.