More than fifty years after I first heard of Philo T. Farnsworth (in the summer if 1973)…
More than twenty years after The Boy Who Invented Television was first published…
And a year after it was re-published (after the release of The Man Who Mastered Gravity)…
There is finally going to be an audiobook edition!
Once the book was re-released last year, I considered several options for converting it to an audiobook. I auditioned several narrators via the Audible platform at Amazon, but finally opted to do the reading myself after enlisting the production assistance of Robert Lane, the creator of a program called “Your Book, Your Voice.”
I started working with Robert back in January. It has taken the better part of the past four months to get the project done. Each week I would read and record several chapters. I sent the files to Robert, he edited and mastered them and uploaded them to Audible.
I found the experience of reading and recording the text quite gratifying*, to hear how the way I write sounds like the way I talk and vice-versa.
We finished all the uploads this week and have submitted the project to Audible for review. I expect the production to go ‘live’ before the middle of May.
Keep an eye on the Amazon sales page, the audiobook will show up there the minute it’s approved.
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*when I wasn’t wondering “why am I still grinding on this material, much of which I first wrote more than 50 years ago!” 🤦🏻♂️