Actually my title today probably should say "Sound On." I have not had a BSP (Blatant Self-Promotion) post for well over a year. Today, I am taking a raincheck on my Bouchercon hiatus opportunity in order to tell everyone this:
I am very proud to announce the publication of audio versions of Idol of Mombasa and The Blasphemers—Vera and Tolliver #s 2 and 3!
The audio for the first in my Africa series—Strange Gods—has been available for some time. The voice artist who narrated Vera and Tolliver # 1 did such a marvelous job that I knew I wanted him to record the other books in the series.
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Dennis Kleinman is a South African, living in LA, who has the right soul, the right voice, and ALL the right accents to do a superlative job of reading Vera and Tolliver. Audible chose him to narrate Strange Gods, and when I first heard his recording, I was stunned by the result. In Dennis’s voice, my own characters became even more real to me than they were in my imagination. The Scots, the English, the tribal people all sound exactly right to me when Dennis reads their dialogue. He also puts just the right emotional ring to what they are saying.
Once the audio rights to Idol and Blasphemers reverted to me, Dennis went to work, doing his magic on characters that presented new challenges: Arab and Swahili voices, Midlands English, as well as tony British aristocrats. The results are superb.
If you listen to books and are new to the series, you can start with the audio book for Strange Gods here:
And then, I invite you to follow Vera and Tolliver from Nairobi and its environs to the costal Arab trading city of Mombasa and then to the Maasai region of Nakuru in the East African Highlands:
Idol of Mombasa Audible
The Blasphemers Audible
What next for Vera and Tolliver?
There is no fourth in the Vera and Tolliver series to brag about this year. What that is so is a long story and definitely not a thriller. Here is the expurgated version:
I completed the next in the African series—A Death on the Lord’s Day—some time ago. Complications of changing publishers has kept it under wraps. Readers have asked me for more of V&T, and I promise you more is on the way.
We used to use the word “glacial” to describe things that moved painfully slowly. Now we are pained by how terribly fast glaciers are moving. I can safely say that moving at “publishing speed” wins my vote as the new metaphor for the most frustrating pace on the planet. Snails gallop by comparison. Tortoises are far less tortuous. Or torturous for that matter.
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Photo: Annamaria, Serengeti 2006
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I promise I will not give up.
A Death on the Lord's Day will be published soon.
Stay tuned.
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