{"id":20442,"date":"2025-01-31T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T01:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20442"},"modified":"2025-01-31T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T01:14:17","slug":"call-for-consumer-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20442","title":{"rendered":"Call for consumer input"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1567596388756-f6d710c8fc07?q=80&amp;w=2070&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo credit: Jonathan Farber. Unsplash license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This extra Friday post<\/strong> is for the purpose of picking your collective brains, O Esteemed Readership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m looking at the prospect of producing audiobooks of my novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generous friends provided me with equipment, and I think I\u2019m near the point where I can make good enough quality recordings to satisfy ACX, the Amazon audiobook publishing arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My plan has been to start with the Erling books, but now I\u2019m uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I ask you \u2013 if you bought an audiobook where the narrator is declared to be an Irishman, would it bother you if the book was read in a Midwestern US accent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I contemplated trying to master an Irish accent, but I\u2019m pretty sure it would never be really right. I could probably carry the accent for a few paragraphs, but over many hours of reading, the illusion would wear off. I\u2019d slip too often into flat Minnesota tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now I\u2019m considering hiring an Irishman to do the Erling books (if I can find one; you can hire narrators on a percentage-of-royalties basis) and just doing my Epsom books myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think? Would it disappoint you if I had somebody else play Father Ailill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extra Friday post is for the purpose of picking your collective brains, O Esteemed Readership. I\u2019m looking at the prospect of producing audiobooks of my novels. Generous friends provided me with equipment, and I think I\u2019m near the point where I can make good enough quality recordings to satisfy ACX, the Amazon audiobook publishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call for consumer input<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-20442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","tag-audiobooks"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20444,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20442\/revisions\/20444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}