Creating an Audio Book Through Online Networking

Here is a abating adventure about how online networking brings humans calm as a family.
Janet Riehl and I met through artist Hal Manogue. I interviewed Hal on Writers in the Sky podcast in 2006 and Janet in aboriginal 2007. We accept kept in blow anytime since.
With Janet active in St. Louis and me active in Nashville, (Music City) we had not met until she absitively to accomplish the cruise to accommodated Hal and me. A few weeks afore her arrival, she asked if I knew of an audio architect in Nashville who could abetment her with recording and alteration a project. She capital to accomplish an audio book of Sightlines: A Poet's Diary the balladry she wrote about her family. Did I apperceive of an audio engineer? Of course, I do! This is Nashville; and there's either a musician, a church, a Mapco, or a recording flat on every corner, but alone one architect whom I knew alone and trusted for this project-my actual own son-in-law, Scott Kidd.
Scott accelerating from Shenandoah Conservatory and has been alive in the music acreage for added than ten years. He came to our ancestors by way of my daughter, Sareya, who fell in adulation with him six years ago. I cannot anticipate of a bigger man to be allotment of our family. Naturally, I was captivated if she and Scott affiliated endure June. Aback I've been alteration books for Hal Leonard Publishing I've abstruse a lot about the mixing, mastering, recording, and engineering ancillary of the music business, and I've acquired a new acknowledgment for what my son-in-law does for a living.
There may be others out there who are aggressive to actualize an audio book. I've interviewed Janet about her acquaintance in creating Sightlines and I'll allotment it with you here:
YVONNE: Why did you wish to accomplish an audio of your book?
JANET: I've capital to accomplish an audio book anytime aback Sightlines: A Poet's Diary was appear in 2006. Over and over if association heard me apprehend my balladry out loud they would animadversion how abundant my account brought to their acquaintance of the poems. If I appeared on your Writers in the Sky podcast January 12, 2007, that is one of the comments you fabricated during our conversation-that you'd like to accept a recording of the poems. As I've done readings and talks about the country based on the book over the accomplished two books, this admiration remained connected and became stronger.
YVONNE: How do you intend to use the audio?
JANET: I'll advertise the audio book during claimed appearances and from my Web site. I apprehend It'll accomplish a admirable allowance for baby accompany and relatives, too, because it will accommodate so abundant of my father's characteristic singing and speaking articulation and his wit and acumen on it, alloyed in with the balladry appear in Sightlines.
I'll aswell be bearing a multimedia eBook-one of the newest forms on the web-that we'll advertise off my site. The recording for the audio book CD will be angled for the multimedia eBook. The multimedia eBook is artlessly argument and links (or buttons and icons) that yield you to audio, video, or anything, including alien locations. It is an eBook that functions like a website or a blog.
I apprehend the argument of Sightlines accumulated with audio and photos and annihilation abroad we can brainstorm to include. Maybe we'll accomplish some YouTube videos to go with it as well. Who knows?
YVONNE: Tell us about the balladry and music used.
JANET: Our acquaintance Hal Manogue describes Sightlines: A Poet's Diary as "a down home ancestors adulation adventure above death" told in attainable adventure balladry and archival photos. I told Scott that I capital to amplify, not actor or carbon the book. The audio book of Sightlines will accompany added activity and ambience to the book by way of including agreeable interludes from the accumulation my ancestor and I play with, and little $.25 of ancestors belief and amusing comments...mostly from my ancestor with his abrasive voice, abundantly able still at 92. We recorded actual in my father's parlor application a minidisc amateur (a accoutrement now in top appeal on eBay and acclimated on NPR and PBS documentaries). I was able to accompany this artlessly recorded music and balladry apprehend by my ancestor down to Scott to braid into the recording we did in his Nashville studio.
YVONNE: What was the recording affair like?
JANET: Scott is a dream assistant because he's skillful, relaxed, fun, responsive, and on point. For this project, I couldn't accept absurd anyone added appropriate to plan with. My ancestor would say, "He has a acceptable blow on it." He accepted about the accent of ancestors stories, history, heritage, and legacy. That's the atmosphere of my upbringing, my accepted collaborative activity with my father, and the 5 sections of Sightlines 90 poems. A complete editor like Scott is commensurable to a blur editor who pulls a activity calm like a collage. You charge to acquisition anyone who is sympatico with your activity and your way of working.
I'm abiding there are lots of places in St. Louis area I reside who do this affectionate of work, but I didn't apperceive who they were. Aback I came to Scott through you, and I'd abstruse to apperceive and assurance you aback actualization on your podcast in 2007, I acquainted it would be a accustomed fit. I adopt to do business relationally...through connections. Rather anon into the 2-day plan affair with Scott I acquainted I could assurance him absolutely with my eyes of the artefact I feel we're continuing to actualize calm during the alteration process.
I admired lunching with you and Hal at the Yellow Porch, just chatting as if we were on the aback balustrade at home. Scott says this is a accepted way of accomplishing business in Nashville, and believe-you-me, I adulation it! Our plan sessions in Scott's flat were affected with arena brawl with his Boston Terrier Tucker and account over his marriage album. There was a absolute faculty of animal affiliation which is all too attenuate in today's abrupt world. He provided a quiet, auspicious attestant during the hours of harder plan of recording. Account the absolute book in such a abridged time anatomy was both demanding and exhilarating.
YVONNE: Tucker is my grand-dog and he's abounding of adulation and energy! Yes, activity in the south is friends- and family-oriented and our "business" luncheons can go on for hours! Do you accept any hints for readers who ability like to yield on a activity like this?
JANET: It's actual important to accomplish a baby map in adjustment to adapt the recording. Afore our accumulation recorded in Pop's parlor, I wrote out the songs I associated with anniversary of the book's 5 sections on the aback of some envelopes so we could blow appropriate along. After the four mini discs were completed, I listened to them and cataloged their capacity by time. This archive became a calmly coded roadmap that Scott and I could calmly accredit to. It adored lots of time during the affair and will save him time and agitation as he moves added into the alteration process.
A acquaintance asked if I accomplished beforehand. I said in a way I've been practicing for two years aback the book came out as I've done readings and talks. But, no, I just sat down, as absolutely present to myself and the plan as possible. I centered myself afore anniversary piece...there's a accustomed breach in the recording action that allows for this...and afresh read. If I flubbed abominably enough, I artlessly chock-full and re-read that bit over and Scott fabricated a mark in his account archetype of Sightlines so he'd apperceive to adapt there. But, there weren't actual abounding of these. If I flubbed just a little bit, I went on.
YVONNE: I'm absolutely searching advanced to audition the audio book. I'm abiding it will be accessible on your blog and Web site. Please accord us the Web addresses so our readers can apprentice more.
JANET: My blog-magazine is "Riehl Life: Village Acumen for the 21st Century" (http://www.riehlife.com) with the mission to actualize access through the arts, beyond cultures and generations. Riehlife is aswell home to Sightlines: A Poet's Diary with abounding sample balladry and accomplishments information.
There are 30-plus 5-star reviews of Sightlines on Amazon, and the book is advised on several sites beyond the web. The Reader Views account (http://www.readerviews.com/ReviewRiehlSightlines.html) is one of my favorites of several interviews on the Web.
YVONNE: Thank you for administration your acquaintance with us. I achievement you'll appear sit on the balustrade with us again. We admired accepting you actuality in Nashville.