Julia Whelan Tells Us How an Audiobook Gets Made

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re joined by a person The New Yorker has called “The Adele of Audiobooks!” You guessed it, we’re exploring the ins and outs of audiobooks with none other than novelist, screenwriter, actor, and iconic audiobook narrator, Julia Whelan. She gives us a behind the scenes peek at the the recording process, what makes a standout audiobook production, how she cares for her voice, and how she writes, edits, and records her own books!

Her books Thank You for Listening, My Oxford Year, and Casanova LLC are out now. She also recommends the audiobook for Bluff by Michael Kardos (which she narrates).

Obsessions

Becca: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short & Sweet

Olivia: Industry

What we read this week

Olivia: The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

Becca: Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney

This Month’s Book Club Pick: All Fours by Miranda July (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to about on paper podcast I'm Olivia mentor and I'm
0:21.8	Becca Freeman and today we have a great interview with
0:25.4	Julia Whelan who is an author and a very famous audiobook narrator and we get to
0:31.7	find out how an audiobook is made.
0:33.2	Yeah, potentially the Queen of audiobooks even.
0:35.7	Yes, absolutely, the number one.
0:37.7	Yeah, I feel like there's a very razor-thin echelon of audiobook narrators who have fans where people are like I will listen to anything
0:47.0	that Julia Whelan narrates and like I think Julia Whelan is just the top of the top of the top when it comes to that. I'm excited.
0:54.4	Also you've never heard better interview audio in your life.
0:58.0	Oh yeah, your ears are going to be just in heaven in a minute.
1:01.0	Yeah, she was in a like egg crate insulated sound booth and we're just at our regular I'm at my dining room table. I'm like hunched over a side table on like a bench and it made me want to have a
1:15.8	soundproof recording studio but this seems a little a little much for my needs anyway
1:21.0	after the writing cottage it It was exactly. It was a great talk. I really liked it.
1:26.0	Well, before we get to that, tell me your high. My high is I went to Chicago for like 48 hours, less than than that and it was just a great trip.
1:34.4	It was just a whirlwind.
1:37.1	I was moving all the time.
1:38.9	Your first time, right?
1:39.5	It was my first time.
1:40.6	I saw the lake for the first time. I was astounded by it. It was beautiful and gigantic
1:47.6	which I knew but it's like really overwhelming when you see it in person. I had great food, so much food. I stood in line for a breakfast
1:55.3	sandwich for like 45 minutes and I got there 30 minutes before the store
1:59.2	opened or the restaurant opened I should say. It was worth it. There was a great event. Just so
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