In this episode, Simon shares how he worked on a couple of different audiobook projects: first, dealing with a practically unreadable chapter in Alan Moore’s Jerusalem and then, a bit on The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth.
You'll hear Simon discuss:
The research and immense work that went into the audiobook of Jerusalem How he made sense of unusual spellings, and dialogue without punctuation in The Wake And what he believes is good narration
Plus we chat about building confidence, and how to approach audiobook projects you may not enjoy.
It's a great session, and it was really wonderful to hear Simon’s process of both experiencing anxiety and putting in so much effort to make sure he does the book justice for both the author and the audience.
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The beginning of "Around the Bend"—the "unreadable chapter" in Alan Moore's Jerusalem
Awake, Lucia gets up wi’ the wry sing of de light. She is a puzzle, shore enearth, as all the Nurzis and the D’actors would afform, but nibber a cross word these days, deepindig on her mendication and on every workin’ grimpill’s progress. Her arouse from drowse is like a Spring, a babboling book that gorgles up amist the soils o’ sleep, flishing and glattering, to mate the mournin’ son. Canfind in this loquation now she gushes and runs chinkling from her silt and softy bed, pooring her harp out down an illside and aweigh cross the old manscape to a modhouse brookfast. Ah, what a performance, practised and applausible. She claps her hands, over her ears, to drone out all the deadful wile-ing and the sorey implecations of whor farmlay. With her bunyans all complainin’ she escapes the Settee o’ Destraction and beguines her evrydaily Millgrimage towar’s ridemption or towords the Wholly Sea; to wards, the tranquilisity of night.
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