Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Introducing Audio Connections

 

         

 


          It’s been a couple of years now since I retired and I’ve been enjoying it. One of the ways of achieving that has been to keep busy and much of that business has been the recording of my stories.

          Why would I do that?

          The easiest answer would be that I write those stories so that people can be entertained and the addition of audio books widens the scope of those who can be entertained. Readers, yes, but now listeners.

          But it also goes back to the last 22 years of my so called “working life”.  At least 60% of that time was by myself and with little to occupy me but the pictures floating around in my imagination.

          Sure, those pictures sometimes turned into the start or perhaps a scene in one of my stories. Sometimes there was satellite radio or recorded music. But it would have been far easier and time would pass faster by hearing a story from someone else.

          That did happen. On at least a half dozen times I trained new drivers and the hours listening to their stories flew by.

          Now, with the various platforms available, my stories and my voice can be telling those stories while you’re driving, painting, cutting the grass or vacuuming the carpet. You can download them to your phone or perhaps to the sound system in your vehicle. You can also download them to your computer and with a “memory stick” or “USB drive” carry those stories around from vehicle to vehicle.

          Yes, I have some satisfying responses to the printed and digital stories I have out there. But I also know there are those who don’t think they can take the time to read a book, even those who need to do so. With and audio book, you can have the entertainment, make those “robotic” times more satisfying and the days more rewarding.

          “The Great Liquor War”, my first published novel and now my first published audio book is available at audio.com. It, and most others that I’ve looked at have samples on the “buy” page so you have an idea to what you could be listening. In the case of GLW it is chapter 19 where the NWMP and BC Police with some volunteers attempt to stop a train/payroll robbery.

Click on the link and it'll take you right to that sample.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/The-Great-Liquor-War-Audiobook/B0CK3W5HJD?eac_link=ur1bBnmZI3Yz&ref=web_search_eac_asin_1&eac_selected_type=asin&eac_selected=B0CK3W5HJD&qid=VS0rHUkjoh&eac_id=138-2064358-3015852_VS0rHUkjoh&sr=1-1 

          Most of my readers will know that there is a sequel to “The Great Liquor War” entitled “Homesteader: Finding Sharon” which is what I am recording now.

          In the early fifties I remember my great grandmother McGowan leading me over to a big floor radio and a fifteen minute or half hour story, often the serialization of a novel. Some of those stories went into full production with sound effects and a large cast of actors and others were simply narrations. So far, my stories are narrations by the author --- which would be me.

          I’ve noticed, as have others, that my reading/voicing one of my stories can supply a whole new feeling.

          Eventually I hope to have all my stories available in audio versions.

There's an author page right here and another at Amazon.ca/author/dmmcgowan 


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