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We’ve been working on a nice little project this week – though it’s had its ups and downs, I think it’s going to turn out well.

We are recording an abridged version of a novel – I won’t say what it is yet but it’s published by a mainstream publishing house in the UK, and our client is the author who is using to his marketing budget to fund it. The idea is to podcast the audio, and see if that helps sales of this book, and the next in the series, and to see if it can help interest a US publisher. All I’ll say at the moment about the book is that it’s a bit of a thriller-mystery, and that my business partner, Matthew, is very much involved with the original book.

We’ve hired an actor called Rob Maloney to read it. It took us a day for him to find the voice, but now he’s very much into it and finding all sorts of shades and tones which add the appropriate atmosphere of mystery and suspense. Although one has to respect the efforts of Librivox, having a professional actor read a novel makes a huge difference.

There have been a few problems: first we have builders here in Star Street, so day one was a big trip out to Tunbridge where Matthew lives. There I found that the line-in socket on my digital recorder was broken – although it had been working the night before. I had to hold it in place with my finger.

On Tuesday we got rid of the builders for the day and I swapped to the mini-disc back in Paddington. Rob and I went out to a local Lebanese cafe -where I’ve eaten lots of times – and on the way back I was feeling a bit queezy. Well I’ve been pretty ill for the last 48 hours, and although I suspect the houmos, Rob seems okay.

So we resume the thriller tomorrow.