The Fall of the Kings: Arlen & Galing
Why be coy?
Yes, I am going into the studio in about 2 weeks to start recording the THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook (Riverside AudioBook 3 - and do please pick up the first two there, while you're stopping here).
Delia's always a tremendous advisor in all my audio work - after 20 years (!!) of seeing me through radio, theater and audio, she's got an amazing ear, plus a whole lotta common sense. But in this case, she's also the Co-Author of the novel!
So, as you can imagine, we are neck-deep in reading and discussing characters and casting (shhhh! not yet!) and voices (oh god how am I going to do 5 different male student main characters plus several hangers on, ditto, in one scene???) and interpretation.....
From tonight's dinner table, I present:
Delia: I know Arlen's the Serpent Chancellor. . . but he's really a tiger. A big beautiful golden tiger, sitting there saying, "I could kill you if I wanted to. But I don't really want to right now." Nicholas Galing, though - a jackal. Saying, "I would definitely kill you if I knew I could get away with it."
I don't think she's being entirely fair to Nicholas. But then, she created him, so I guess she's allowed.
*and it's only my laziness that prevents there being an icon of Canty's splendid cover image for that one here! I'll edit it in later, you may be sure. (And then this note will look really stupid.)
Yes, I am going into the studio in about 2 weeks to start recording the THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook (Riverside AudioBook 3 - and do please pick up the first two there, while you're stopping here).
Delia's always a tremendous advisor in all my audio work - after 20 years (!!) of seeing me through radio, theater and audio, she's got an amazing ear, plus a whole lotta common sense. But in this case, she's also the Co-Author of the novel!
So, as you can imagine, we are neck-deep in reading and discussing characters and casting (shhhh! not yet!) and voices (oh god how am I going to do 5 different male student main characters plus several hangers on, ditto, in one scene???) and interpretation.....
From tonight's dinner table, I present:
Delia: I know Arlen's the Serpent Chancellor. . . but he's really a tiger. A big beautiful golden tiger, sitting there saying, "I could kill you if I wanted to. But I don't really want to right now." Nicholas Galing, though - a jackal. Saying, "I would definitely kill you if I knew I could get away with it."
I don't think she's being entirely fair to Nicholas. But then, she created him, so I guess she's allowed.
*and it's only my laziness that prevents there being an icon of Canty's splendid cover image for that one here! I'll edit it in later, you may be sure. (And then this note will look really stupid.)