nothing in the rulebook

New York Times Bestselling author, Catherine Lanigan, has seen her entire lifetime catalogue of books transformed into audiobooks.

Best known for her novelisations of the iconic films “Romancing the Stone” and “Jewel of the Nile,”
Lanigan has an extensive catalogue spanning romance, mystery, and inspirational non-fiction. After recently reclaiming the rights to her catalogue of literary works, Lanigan said she was eager to find a trusted audio producer and publisher to help bring her stories to a new generation of readers through audio format.

In the end, Lanigan partnered with Sounded – who describe themselves as having an ethical voice replica program. In a world currently dominated by conversations around Artificial l Intelligence and deep fake technology, it is natural that some of our Nothing in the Rulebook readers may be sceptical of such a solution. Yet Sounded state a commitment to working directly with voice artists and authors to ensure consent and control are at the heart of their production process. The company’s TrueVoice™ technology uses a series of original recordings, to replicate an author’s voice.

The theory goes that this technology preserves an author’s unique storytelling style, while eliminating the need for lengthy new recording sessions, which can take 8-12 weeks per book on average.

Lanigan, for her part, appears pleased with the result.

She said: “I spent a year trying to find a reputable, honest audio publisher when I found Sounded on the IngramSpark expert directory. I had worked with Ingram for decades in my 45 years of publishing. If I could not trust their recommendation, I was about to give up.

My readers, fellow authors and friends have urged me for years to put my books in audio, but in MY voice. I had just recorded one of my newest books and was poised to bite the bullet and spend the rest of my life in a sound studio. Thank God for Sounded’s TrueVoice™. My experience has been one of joy. The results are amazing.”

You can hear a sample of Lanigan’s ‘True’ voice below: