Those of you who read my blog will have seen my review of Gail Carriger’s Soulless. There was something that I didn’t tell you in that review. When I read Soulless, I was so impressed with it that I offered Gail my services pro bono as a claviger…um…as a production wonk to help promote the book.
Now, a month and a bit on, after much labor and much laughter, I am pleased to present all of you with the world debut of the first chapter of Gail Carriger’s Soulless in full-cast audiobook format (complete with music, soundFX, and soundscaping). This sample offers you a taste of the romp you’ll be in for when you read the book.
Cast (in order of appearance)
Angela Vernon as The Narrator
Chris Lester as The Unexpected Vampire
Miss Kalendar as Alexia Tarrabotti
George Chlentzos as Lord Conal Maccon
J. Daniel Sawyer as Professor Lyall
After a childhood in academia, J. Daniel Sawyer declared his independence by dropping out of high school and setting off on a series of adventures in the bowels of the film industry, the venture capital culture of silicon valley, surfing safaris, bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, adventurers, climbers, drug dealers, gangbangers, and inventors before his past finally caught up to him.
Trapped in a world bookended by one wall falling in Berlin and other walls going up around suburbia and along national borders throughout the world, he rediscovered his deep love of history and, with it, and obsession with predicting the future as it grew aggressively out of the past.
To date, this obsession has yielded over thirty books and innumerable short stories, the occasional short film, nearly a dozen podcasts stretching over a decade and a half, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the world through the lens of his own peculiar madness, in the depths of his own private forest in a rural exile, where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a production company that brings innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world.
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Great job!!!only one problem, Now I want to hear the whole story in the podcast format.Ha!..The writing is great and the cast did an amazing job with the Victorian English accents, love that style of humor..O’k I know all of you have alot on your plate but come on, that had to be fun…Get to work
Very nice writing and audio, though for some reason there were some significant differences in volume between the narrator and the rest of the dialogue. The sound balancing didn’t seem quite as good as the Antithesis work.
A bit off topic possibly, but anyway – which template are you using? I really love the header style.
Nicol Naval
I believe you’ll find the credit line if you scroll all the way to the bottom 🙂
jdsawyer
Just revisited this piece of work recently and while I know there’s an official, complete audio book of Soulless for sale, I can honestly say that I’d buy this one if it was released in full. The cast and all the extra sound is a wonderful detail and the narrator, I feel, is a bit better suited too.
Everyone who worked on this piece did a wonderful job. Absolutely brilliant. If all audio books were like this, I’d be buying a lot more of them, and that coming from someone who really doesn’t prefer audio books to begin with.
Jenny Sjoberg
Alas, I was not able to get the rights to produce the full book, however Gail and I are cooking something up for another one of her books in the next couple months, so keep your eyes peeled 🙂
Also, under the podcast tab above, you’ll find a couple of my books produced this way. If you like Gail’s stuff, you might enjoy the full-cast production of my Down From Ten.
jdsawyer
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Great job!!!only one problem, Now I want to hear the whole story in the podcast format.Ha!..The writing is great and the cast did an amazing job with the Victorian English accents, love that style of humor..O’k I know all of you have alot on your plate but come on, that had to be fun…Get to work
Very nice writing and audio, though for some reason there were some significant differences in volume between the narrator and the rest of the dialogue. The sound balancing didn’t seem quite as good as the Antithesis work.
Thanks for the link to this version! I updated my review! 🙂
Agreed. Amazing job on this first chapter! I found buy this audio book in a heartbeat if it was to continue as nicely as this chapter!
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A bit off topic possibly, but anyway – which template are you using? I really love the header style.
I believe you’ll find the credit line if you scroll all the way to the bottom 🙂
Just revisited this piece of work recently and while I know there’s an official, complete audio book of Soulless for sale, I can honestly say that I’d buy this one if it was released in full. The cast and all the extra sound is a wonderful detail and the narrator, I feel, is a bit better suited too.
Everyone who worked on this piece did a wonderful job. Absolutely brilliant. If all audio books were like this, I’d be buying a lot more of them, and that coming from someone who really doesn’t prefer audio books to begin with.
Alas, I was not able to get the rights to produce the full book, however Gail and I are cooking something up for another one of her books in the next couple months, so keep your eyes peeled 🙂
Also, under the podcast tab above, you’ll find a couple of my books produced this way. If you like Gail’s stuff, you might enjoy the full-cast production of my Down From Ten.